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Book Gift Guide: Age 3-5

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Best Children’s Books for 3-5 Year Olds: Christmas 2023 Gift Guide

Books make for a wonderful choice of Christmas gifts for children and we’re here to help with some top recommendations of children’s books for Christmas 2023.

From timeless bedtime stories and curious information books to festive favourites and glorious gift books, we’ve selected our top recommendations of book gifts for children aged 3-5.  We’ve tried to include something for all tastes – look out for rooftop present deliveries, sleigh-driving pigeons, classic EYFS stories and information compendiums in this year’s Christmas Gift Guide for 3- to 5-year-olds.

Whether you are looking for tales based on the Christmas nativity story like Leah’s Star or laugh-out-loud sleigh-ride escapades like Santarella, we hope this guide will fill your little ones with festive cheer. We’ve also included EYFS popular favourites like Supermouse and classic story books like The Tiger Who Came to Tea, as well as information books for curious minds like The First Big Book of Why and beautiful bedtime story compendiums to treasure, such as Secrets of the Forest.

 

The books on this list are also available to purchase from Bookshop or Amazon.

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Purchasing Links

 

To purchase the books on this list, visit the BooksForTopics lists on Bookshop or Amazon.

 

More Gift Guides

Book Gift Guide: Ages 3-5 (this page)

Book Gift Guide: Ages 5-7 

Book Gift Guide: Ages 7-9

Book Gift Guide: Ages 9-11

All 2023 children’s book gift guides

 

You may also like our Year Group booklists, featuring 50 Recommended Reads for each primary school year group.

 

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