Room by Emma Donoghue. A student is abducted and locked in a room. She has a child, Jack, and they are locked in Room together. Told from Jack's viewpoint, this is a book you will start and then want to finish in one sitting. Published by Picador Find out more here - https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emma-donoghue/room/9781529077247
The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree by Tove Jansson. A lovely little gift edition hardback with a pretty dust jacket filled with Tove Jansson's illustrations. Two stories perfect for sharing at Christmas featuring the Moomin family and all their friends. Published by Sort of Books in support of Oxfam. Find out more here - https://sortof.co.uk/tove-jansson-the-invisible-child-and-the-fir-tree
Dear Santa by Rod Campbell. Christmas-themed lift the flap fun from the author of Dear Zoo - what's not to like about that!
The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Newly discovered in a charity shop, I snapped this up straight away for it's beautiful design and illustration. The fox's journey through love and loss, when his only friend, the star, is gone, takes us on a tour of the forest's trees and creatures. It's design and illustration perfection in 64 pages. Published by Penguin Books. Find out more here - cb-smith.com/the-fox-and-the-star.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - I've been collecting these children's classics, and this seemed like a good choice for December. Ebenezer Sxcrooge is visited bty the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Presemt and Christmas Future to give him a taste of his own medicine and show him how people really live, and how they are kind and happy even in poverty and adversity. Published by Penguin Children's Classics. Find out more here - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56170/a-christmas-carol-by-dickens-charles/9780141324524
Aliens love Panta Claus - I shared this with families at our Story Cafe this month. The same Aliens in Underpants fun, but with Santa.
Christmas Poems by Wendy Cope. This is a hardback illustrated gift edition which includes some of her favourite Christmas poems as well as new and unpublished work. Bethlehem is a poem for peace, in Christmas Ornaments she remembers her family's collection of tree decorations collected on holidays, Little Donkey is a reminiscence on teaching and fights over who wanted to make the clip-clop sound, and Another Poem is an ode to washing-up...here it is
"Bloody Christmas, here again.
Let us raise a loving cup:
Peace on earth, goodwill to men,
And make them do the washing-up."
Published by @faber&faber Find out more here - https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571338580-christmas-poems/
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - lovely, witty, gentle short stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm.
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