Best Children’s Books for 3-5 Year Olds: Christmas 2025 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 2025.
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 encounters with Santa, nativity tales, classic EYFS stories and gorgeous treasuries 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 escapades like Clive Penguin Learns to Fly, Sort of, we hope this guide will fill your little ones with festive cheer. We’ve also included stories with popular EYFS characters like the Gruffalo Pop-Up, and titles from favourite authors, like Michael Rosen and Helen Oxbury’s Oh Dear, Look What I Got! There are information books for curious minds like My Very Important Human Body Encyclopedia, classic tales like Paddington, and beautiful bedtime story compendiums to treasure, such as Poppy and Sam’s Complete Book of Farmyard Tales.
The books on this list are also available to purchase from Bookshop.
