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November 9, 2020/in Other Articles /by bookskeeps
This article is featured in BfK 245 November 2020
This article is in the Other Articles Category

Christmas recommendations 2020

Author: Andrea Reece

Books for Giving 2020

Baby loves Earth: An ABC of our Planet, Jennifer Eckford, illus Teresa Bellon, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 978-0711253193, £8.99 board book 

Where Are You Tiger?, Eco Baby DK, 978-0241440254, £7.99 board book

Honey for You, Honey for Me, A First Book of Nursery Rhymes, Michael Rosen, illus Chris Riddell, Walker Books, 978-1406374636, £14.99 hbk

Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & Poems, Frann Preston-Gannon, Nosy Crow, 978-1788008433, £14.99 hbk

Slow Down, Rachel Williams, illus Freya Hartas, Magic Cat Publishing, 978-1916180512, £16.99 hbk

Rain Before Rainbows, Smriti Halls, illus David Litchfield, Walker Books, 978-1406382358, £12.99 hbk

Dog Gone, Rob Biddulph, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008317928, £12.99 hbk

A Story About Afiya, James Berry, illus Anna Cunha, Lantana, 978-1911373339, £14.47

A Thing Called Snow, Yuval Zommer, OUP, 978-0192769824, £12.99 hbk

Santa Post, Emma Yarlett, Walker Books, 978-1406392197, £12.99 hbk

Dogger’s Christmas, Shirley Hughes, Bodley Head, 978-1782300809, £12.99 hbk

Where Snow Angels Go, Maggie O’Farrell, illus Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, 978-1406391992, £14.99 hbk

A Fairy Tale Revolution Hansel and Greta, Jeanette Winterson, illus Laura Barrett, Vintage Children’s Classics, 978-1784876333, £12.99 hbk

A Fairy Tale Revolution Blueblood, Malorie Blackman, illus Laura Barrett, Vintage Children’s Classics, 978-1784876418, £12.99 hbk

A Fairy Tale Revolution Duckling, Kamila Shamsie, illus Laura Barrett, Vintage Children’s Classics, 978-1784876319, £12.99 hbk

A Fairy Tale Revolution Cinderella Liberator, Rebecca Solnit, illus Arthur Rackham, Vintage Children’s Classics, 978-1784876197, £12.99 hbk

Starbird, Sharon King-Chai, Two Hoots, 978-1509899562, £12.99 hbk

Marshmallow Pie, The Cat Superstar, Clara Vulliamy, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008355852, £6.99 pbk

Claude at the Palace, Alex T Smith, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444932003, £8.99 hbk

The Hat Full of Secrets, Karl Newson, illus Wazza Pink, Stripes, 978-1788950763, £7.99 pbk

The Wizard in My Shed, Simon Farnaby, illus Claire Powell, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444957617, £12.99 hbk

A Christmas in Time, Sally Nicholls, Nosy Crow, 978-1788007337, £6.99 pbk

The Book of Hopes, ed Katherine Rundell, Bloomsbury, 978-1526629883, £12.99 hbk

Timelines from Black History, DK, Mireille Harper, 978-0241503614, £12.99 hbk

Kay’s Anatomy : A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body, Adam Kay, Puffin, 978-0241452912, £14.99 hbk

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Books of the Year booklist

When Stars are Scattered, Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, Faber, 978-0571363858, £9.99 pbk

The Space We’re In, Katya Balen, illus by Laura Carlin, 978-1526601971, £6.99 pbk

The Children of Swallow Fell, Julia Green, OUP, 978-0192771582, £6.99 pbk

My Footprints, Bao Phi & Basia Tran, Raintree, 978-1474762434, £6.99 pbk

Plenty of Hugs, Fran Manushkin & Kate Alizadeh, Dial Books, 978-0525554011, £13.99 hbk

Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love, Walker Books, 978-1406397482, £12.99 hbk

Nothing Ever Happens Here, Sarah Hagger-Holt, Usborne, 978-1474966238, £7.99

Hark by John R Gordon, Team Angelica Publishing, 978-1916356115, £10.99

Where is Lenny?, Ken Wilson-Max, Alanna Max, 978-1907825231, £7.99 hbk

Lenny and Wilbur, Ken Wilson-Max, Alanna Max, 978-1907825248, £9.99 hbk

Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence (Hachette)

Break the Mould, Sinéad Burke, Wren & Rook, 978-1526363336, £8.99 pbk

Punching the Air, Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam, HarperCollins, 978-0008422141, £7.99 pbk

She Will Soar: Bright, brave poems about freedom by women, ed Ana Sampson, 978-1529040043, £14.99 hbk

The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice

Chinglish, Sue Cheung, Andersen Press, 978-1783448395, £7.99 pbk

The Short Knife, Elen Caldecott, Andersen Press, 978-1783449798, £12.99 hbk

The Midnight Guardians, Ross Montgomery, Walker Books, 978-1406391183, £7.99 pbk

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Beyond the Secret Garden? Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Zombierella, Joseph Coelho, illus Freya Hartas, Walker Books, 978-1406389661, £7.99

Cinderella is Dead, Kalynn Bayron, Bloomsbury, 978-1526621979, £7.99 pbk

The Challenger, Taran Matharu, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444938999, £12.99 hbk

Moonchild: Voyage of the Lost and Found, Aisha Busbhy, Egmont, 978-1405293211, £6.99 pbk

Thank You, Joseph Coelho, illus Sam Usher, Frances Lincoln, 978-0711262034, £6.99 pbk

Sona Sharma, Very Best Big Sister, Chitra Soundar, illus Jen Khatun, Walker, 978-1406391756, £5.99 pbk

The Story of the Windrush, K. N. Chimbiri, Scholastic, 978-0702307133, £6.99 pbk

The History of African and Caribbean Communities in Britain, Hakim Adi, Wayland, 978-1526317971, £8.99 pbk

Coming to England, Floella Benjamin, illus Diane Ewen, Macmillan Children’s Books, 978-1529009415, £12.99 hbk

Journeys: The Story of Migration to Britain, Dan Lyndon-Cohen, Rising Stars, 978-1510452381, £7.50

When Life Gives You Mangoes, Kereen Getten, Pushkin, 978-1782692645, £7.99 pbk

Boy Everywhere, A M Dassau, Old Barn Books, 978-1910646649, £7.99 pbk

The Boy Who Loved Everyone, Jane Porter, illus Maisie Paradise Shearring, Walker Books, 978-1406392876, £7.99 pbk

A Thousand Questions, Saadia Faruqi, Quill Tree, 978-0062943200, £12.99 hbk

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