A new Irish publisher with a strong children’s catalogue is always worth celebrating, as are the two new titles arriving from Natural World Publishing this spring. ER Murray’s Arabella Pepper: The Wild Detective (8+, €12) is a middle-grade mystery with a pair of compelling central characters: fish-out-of-water Arabella, and her companion crow, Blue. Neither are happy with their new home in Greytown, where Arabella’s mum has a prestigious new job. With no wild animals to track, like she used to back on her former island home, Arabella compiles case notes on her suspicious new neighbours instead: the Pinch family are...