Best Children’s Books for 5-7 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 5-7. We’ve tried to include something for all tastes – look out for Christmas Eve chaos, animal adventures in Lapland, starchasing and ocean mysteries in this year’s Christmas Gift Guide for 5- to 7-year-olds.
Whether you are looking for fun, festive read-alouds like Have Yourself a Cheesy Little Christmas or laugh-out-loud Christmas adventures like Peanut Butter & Crackers Christmas Surprise, we hope this guide will fill your little ones with festive cheer. We’ve also included stories with popular KS1 characters like Isadora Moon and the Pop Stars and Izzy the Inventor and the Elf Inspectors, as well as information books for curious minds like Don’t Squish a Slug and beautiful poetry compendiums to treasure, such as A Whale of a Time and Words Can Fly.
The books on this list are also available to purchase from Bookshop.
