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Books for Keeps Books for Giving Book List 2023
Don’t Tickle Santa by Sam Taplin illus Ana Martin Larranaga, Usborne, 978-1805313021, £12.99
Can you Find Santa? Axel Scheffler, Campbell Books, 978-1035012619, £7.99
Snow! Leslie Patricelli, Walker Books, 978-1529516104, £7.99
Luna Loves Christmas by Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers, Andersen Press, 978-1839131660, £12.99 hbk
How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, Walker Books, 978-1529512779, £12.99 hbk
You Can’t Let an Elephant Pull Santa’s Sleigh by Patricia Cleveland-Peck and David Tazzyman, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 978-1526635433, £7.99 pbk
Merry Whatmas? by Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar, Faber & Faber, 978-0571379514, £7.99 pbk
Christmas Cobwebs, Pippa Goodhart and Ema Malyauka, Tiny Owl, 978-1910328934, £8.99 pbk
Eight Nights, Eight Lights by Natalie Barnes and Andrea Stegmaier, Little Tiger, 978-1801042925, £7.99 pbk
Animal Tales from India Nikita Gill, illus Chaaya Prabhat, Nosy Crow, 978-1839944628, £16.99 hbk
Where Magic Grows by Onjali Q, Raúf, Orion Children’s Books, 978-1510111066, £20.00 hbk
Ten-Word Tiny Tales by Joseph Coelho, Walker Books, 978-1529502688, £14.99 hbk
The Shirley Hughes Treasury, Shirley Hughes, Walker Books, 978-1529515114, £20.00 hbk
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’s Christmas Shenanigans, Macmillan Children’s Books, 978-1035028177, £15.99 hbk
Juniper’s Christmas Eoin Colfer, illus Chaaya Prabhat, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008475536, £12.99 hbk
Finding Bear, Hannah Gold, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008582012, £12.99 hbk
The Ice Children, M G Leonard, illus Penny Neville-Lee, Macmillan Children’s Books, 978-1035014217, £12.99 hbk
The Snow Girl, Sophie Anderson, illus Melissa Castrillon, Usborne, 978-1803704357, £12.99 hbk
Paws, Claws, Tails & Roars, Brian Wildsmith, foreword by Michael Rosen, Oxford 978-0192784216, £20.00 hbk
Strange Tales, Daniel Morden, Firefly Press, 978-1915444172, £10.99 hbk
Tales of the Damned, Matt Ralphs, illus Taylor Dolan, Big Picture Press, 978-1800781696, £20.00 hbk
Mayhem at Camp Croak!, Taylor Dolan, Guppy Books, 978-1913101893, £7.99 pbk
Mermedusa, Thomas Taylor, Walker Books, 978-1529502138, £7.99 pbk
Tom’s Midnight Garden 65th Anniversary Edition, Philippa Pearce, foreword by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Oxford, 978-0192788740, £12.99 hbk
A Traveller in Time, Alison Uttley, illus John Broadley, Faber Children’s Books, 9780571382040, £12.99 hbk
A Bear Called Paddington 65th Anniversary Edition, Michael Bond, illus Peggy Fortnum, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008589035, £14.99 hbk
How to Train Your Dragon 20th Anniversary Edition, Cressida Cowell, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444973006, £12.99 hbk
Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren and Lauren Child, Oxford Children’s Books, 978-0192788542, £13.99 pbk
The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha, Michael Foreman, Templar Books, 978-1800785304, £7.99 pbk
Tyger, S F Said, illus Dave McKean, David Fickling Books, 978-1788452915, £7.99 pbk
Island of Whispers, Frances Hardinge, illus Emily Gravett, Two Hoots, 978-1529088076, £14.99 hbk
Begin Again, Oliver Jeffers, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008579593, £20.00 hbk
Not included but also recommended for fans:
Hilda’s World: A Guide to Trolberg, the Wilderness, and Beyond (Netflix Original Series Tie-In) Emily Hibbs, illus Jason Chan, Flying Eye Books, 978-1913123239, £16.99 pbk
The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac: The official magical companion to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, J.K.Rowling, illus Peter Goes, Louise Lockhart, Weitong Mai, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 978-1526646712, £30.00
Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being A Witch, Rhianna Pratchett, Gabrielle Kent, ilus Paul Kidby, Penguin, 978-0241651995, £25.00 hbk
