Best Children’s Books for 7-9 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 7-9. We’ve tried to include something for all tastes – look out for heroic sprouts, Christmas wishes, animal adventures and awe-inspiring stories from nature in this year’s Christmas Gift Guide for 7- to 9-year-olds.
Whether you are looking for hilarious, festive stories like Dave Pigeon (Turkey Dinner!) or magical, frost-filled adventures like The Snowman Code, we hope this guide will fill your young readers with plenty of seasonal cheer. We’ve also included popular KS2 favourites like The Wood Where Magic Grows and super fun choose-your-own-adventure style books like Traitor Island, as well as information books for curious minds like MEGA: The Most Enormous Animals Ever and beautiful poetry compendiums to treasure, such as A Poem for Every Question.
The books on this list are also available to purchase from Amazon or Bookshop.
