It’s easy to feel lost in the flood of so many new children’s books available. Each month, our review panel reads scores of new books and we highlight five of our recently published favourites.
Check out our Review Panel’s top books for you to read in February 2023.
It’s easy to feel lost in the flood of so many new children’s books available. Each month, our review panel reads scores of new books and we highlight five of our recently published favourites.
Check out our Review Panel’s top books for you to read in January 2023.
First published in 1995, Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ has become a modern classic. Drawing on mythology, philosophy and literature, Pullman offers a deeply satisfying and multi-layered fantasy narrative. With some darker themes, this series is most suitable for the ages of 12 and above.
Lyra Belacqua’s journey through the frozen Arctic in Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights is a thrilling quest filled with magic, mystery, and the fight for freedom. This is a stunning fantasy, packed full of adventure and intrigue and very big family secrets. Who is Lyra’s mother and where has Will’s father gone? Readers will love the TV dramatization just as much as the books.
Another illustrator whose work I adore. I have all her books, but I do have a particular soft spot for Sylvia, a beautiful dragon who finds a friend.
With stunning pictures and lyrical words, this is a book to savour and read time after time. A proper feast for the eyes and an utter delight to share and read aloud. A story that will keep you dreaming of dragons for years to come.
Enchanting, beautiful, evocative, imaginative and poetic.
Ann-Marie Howell, author of Mystery Of The Night Watchers, joins us this week to share some books featuring family secrets and lies. Ann-Marie’s book is a gripping new historical adventure set in East Anglia, and the story sees the unearthing of some family secrets dangerous enough to put lives at risk…
Ann-Marie told us, “I grew up loving books about mysteries and family secrets, which is I think why I enjoy writing them so much now. Here are my top five favourite reads packed full of secrets that will hopefully keep you guessing to the very end.”
All our Books of The Months in 2018
Each month our Review Panel highlights recommended new children’s books. Our top five picks each month feature newly published children’s books that we think you’ll love just as much as we do. From picturebooks and poetry to novels and non-fiction, we love shouting from the rooftops about the best new children’s books when we find them.
All our Books of The Months in 2019
Each month our Review Panel highlights recommended new children’s books. Our top five picks each month feature newly published children’s books that we think you’ll love just as much as we do. From picturebooks and poetry to novels and non-fiction, we love shouting from the rooftops about the best new children’s books when we find them.
All our Books of The Months in 2020
Each month our Review Panel highlights recommended new children’s books. Our top five picks each month feature newly published children’s books that we think you’ll love just as much as we do. From picturebooks and poetry to novels and non-fiction, we love shouting from the rooftops about the best new children’s books when we find them.
Recommended New Children’s Books
Each month our Review Panel highlights recommended new children’s books. Our top five picks each month feature newly published children’s books that we think you’ll love just as much as we do. From picturebooks and poetry to novels and non-fiction, we love shouting from the rooftops about the best new children’s books when we find them.
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