The Books for Keeps Christmas Books Gift List 2019

The Books for Keeps Christmas Books Gift List 2019

Books of the Year 2019 Article

Books for Giving

Mary had a little Lamb Jarvis,Walker Books, 978-1406385229 board £6.99

That’s not My Polar Bear… Fiona Watt. Illus. Rachel Wells, Usborne, 9781474959049, board, £5.99

Winter Wonderland Sam Taplin, ill. Federica Iossa, Usborne, 9781474967556, board £12.99

The Twinkly, Twinkly Bedtime Book Sam Taplin. Ill. Jennifer A. Bell, Usborne,9781474967563, board £12.99

The Best Kind of Bear Greg Gormley and David Barrow, Nosy Crow,9781788002042, £6.99 pbk

Wolf in the Snow Matthew Cordell,Andersen Press,9781783448548, £6.99 pbk

The Button Book Sally Nicholls and Bethan Woollvin,Andersen Press, 9781783447749, £12.99 hbk

Koshka’s Tales. Stories from Russia James Mayhew,Graffeg, 9781913134457, £12.99 hbk

Storytime Georgie Adams. Ill Magda Brol, Zephyr, 9781788541732, £12.99 hbk

Epic Tales of Triumph and Adventure Simon Cheshire and Fatti Burke, Bloomsbury, 9781526601124 £12.99 hbk

Roger Duvoisin’s The Night Before Christmas Clement C. Moore,Scallywag Press 9781912650194 £11.99 hbk

Angel on the Roof Shirley Hughes, Walker Books, 9781406379648, £12.99 hbk

The Guardians of Magic (The Cloud Horse Chronicles) Chris Riddell   Macmillan Children’s Books 9781447277972 £12.99 hbk

Frostheart: James Littler, Puffin, 9780241355220, £7.99 pbk

Eight Princesses and a Mirror Natasha Farrant. Ill. Lydia Corry, Zephyr, 9781788541152 £12.99 hbk

Hey, Sherlock, Simon Mason, David Fickling Books, 9781788450652 £7.99 pbk

Chinglish Sue Cheung, Andersen Press, 9781783448395, £7.99 pbk

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling. Ill. Jim Kay, Bloomsbury, 9781408845677 £32.00 hbk

Black Beauty Anna Sewell. Ill. Christian Birmingham, Palazzo Editions, 9781786750808, £16.99

Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne. Retold Antonis Papatheodoulou, Ill. Iris Samartz Faros Books 9781916409101 £12.99 hbk

The Truth about Dinosaurs Guido Van Genechten, Five Quills, 9780993553783 £6.99 pbk

Life. The First Four Billion Years Martin Jenkins. Ill. Grahame Baker-Smith, Walker Studio 9781406372700 £16.99 hbk

Nose Knows. Wild Ways Animals smell the World Emmanuelle Figueras, illus. Claire De Gastold What On Earth Books, 9781912920068 £14.99 hbk

What’s That Garden Bird? Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham, Fine Feather Press 9781908489401 £12.99 hbk

Midnight Feasts ed. A. F. Harrold. Ill. Katy Riddell Bloomsbury 9781472944078 £12.99 hbk

Poems from a Green and Blue Planet ed. Sabrina Mahfouz, illus. Aaron Cushley, Hodder 9781444951240 £14.99 hbk

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year ed. Allie Esiri , Macmillan Children’s Books, 9781509890323 £18.99 hbk

How to Hide a Lion at Christmas: Helen Stephens, Scholastic, 9781407178875 £6.99 pbk

Mouse’s Night Before Christmas Tracey Corderoy and Sarah Massini, Nosy Crow 9781788005449 £11.99 hbk

Meerkat Christmas Emily Gravett, Two Hoots, 9781509857296 £12.99 hbk

The Hare and the Moon. A Book of Paintings Catherine Hyde, Zephyr, 9781788548472 £15.00 hbk

Migrations: Open Hearts Open Borders Otter-Barry Books, 9781910959800 £9.99 hbk

Leah’s Story Margaret Bateson-Hill and Karin Littlewood Alanna Max 9781907825255 £5.99 pbk

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Books for Everyone

A Pocketful of Stars, Aisha Bushby, Egmont, 978-1405293198, £6.99 pbk

All the Things We Never Said, Yasmin Rahman, Hot Key Books, 978-1471408298, £7.99pbk

Astro Girl Ken Wilson-Max, Otter-Barry, 978-1910959213, £11.99 hbk

Look Up! Nathan Bryan and Dapo Adeola, Puffin, 978-0241345849, £6.99 pbk

My Hair, Hannah Lee, illus Allen Fatimaharan, Faber and Faber, 978-0571346875, £6.99 pbk

Hands Up! Breanna J. McDaniel, Dial, 978-0525552314, £12.99 hbk

B is for Baby Atinuke illus Angela Brooksbank, Walker Books, 978-1406371086, £11.99 hbk

Billy and the Dragon, Nadia Shireen, Jonathan Cape, 978-0857551351, £6.99 pbk

How the Stars Came to Be, Poonam Mistry, Tate Publishing, 978-1849766630, £12.99 hbk

You’re Snug with Me, Chitra Soundar’s illus Poonam Mistry, Lantana, 978-1911373476, £11.99 hbk

The Phoenix of Persia, Sally Pomme Clayton, illus Amin Hassanzadeh Sharif, Tiny Owl, 978-1910328439, £12.99 hbk

Under the Great Plum Tree, Sufiya Ahmed, illus Reza Dalvand, Tiny Owl, 978-1910328460, £12.99 hbk

Freedom, Catherine Johnson, Scholastic, 978-1407185484, £4.99 pbk

Son of the Circus, A Victorian Story, E.L. Norry, Scholastic, 978-1407191416, £6.99 pbk

Diver’s Daughter, A Tudor Story, Patrice Lawrence, Scholastic, 978-1407191409, £6.99 pbk

Now Or Never, A Dunkirk Story Bali Rai, Scholastic, 978-1407191362, £6.99 pbk *also featured in our Books of the Year selection

High Rise Mystery, Sharna Jackson, Knights Of, 978-1999642518, £6.99 pbk

Toad Attack by Patrice Lawrence, illus Becka Moor, Barrington Stoke, 978-1781128442, £6.99 pbk

Planet Omar – Accidental Trouble Magnet Zanib Mian, illus Nasaya Mafaridik, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444951226, £6.99 pbk *also featured in our Books of the Year selection

Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World Konnie Huq, Piccadilly Press, 978-1848128828, £10.99 hbk *also featured in our Stocking Filler selection

Little Badman and the Invasion Of The Killer Aunties, Humza Arshad and Henry White, illus Alesksei Bitskoff, Puffin, 978-0241340608, £6.99 pbk

Once Upon a Raindrop, James Carter illus Nomoco, Caterpillar Books, 978-1848577145, £11.99 hbk

What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? And Other Big Questions, Jeffrey Boakye and Darren Chetty, Wayland, 978-1526308146, £13.99 hbk

A Year of Nature Poems, Joseph Coelho, illus Kelly Louise Judd, Wide Eyed Editions, 978-1786035820, £11.99 hbk

Somebody Give This Heart A Pen, Sophia Thakur, Walker Books, 978-1406388534, £7.99 pbk

Where the River Runs Gold, Sita Brahmachari, Orion Children’s Books, 978-1510105416, £6.99 pbk

Asha and the Spirit Bird, Jasbinder Bilan, Chicken House, 978-1911490197, £6.99 pbk

The Tunnels Below, Nadine Wild-Palmer, Pushkin Children’s Books, 978-1782692232, £7.99 pbk

Home Girl, Alex Wheatle, Atom, 978-0349003252, £7.99pbk

With The Fire on High, Elizabeth Acevedo, Hot Key Books, 978-1471409004, £7.99 pbk

Rose, Interrupted, Patrice Lawrence, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444940657, £7.99 pbk

The Black Flamingo, Dean Atta, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444948585, £12.99 hbk

Crossfire, Malorie Blackman, Penguin, 978-0241388440, £7.99 pbk

The Boxer, Nikesh Shukla, Hodder Children’s Books, 978-1444940695, £7.99 pbk

That Asian Kid, Savita Kalhan, Troika Books, 978-1909991972, £7.99 pbk

Tales from the Inner City, Shaun Tan, Walker Studio, 978-1406383843, £19.99 hbk

The Million Pieces of Neena Gill, Emma Smith-Barton, Penguin, 978-0241363317, £7.99 pbk

Kick The Moon, Muhammed Khan, Macmillan Children’s Books, 978-1509874071, £7.99 pbk *also featured in our Books of the Year selection

Oh My Gods, Alexandra Sheppard, Scholastic, 978-1407188737, £6.99 pbk

Becoming Dinah, Kit De Waal, Orion Children’s Books, 978-1510105706, £7.99 pbk

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Books of the Year

The Suitcase, Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, Nosy Crow, 978-1788004480, £6.99 pbk

Button & Popper, Oili Tanninen, Thames and Hudson, 978-0500652015, £10.95

Lampie and the Children of the Sea, Annet Schaap, translated by Laura Watkinson, Pushkin Children’s Books, 978-1782692188, £12.99 pbk

Toffee, Sarah Crossan, Bloomsbury, 978-1408868126, £12.99 hbk

The Runaways, Ulf Stark, Gecko Press, 978-1776572342, £7.99 pbk

The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander, Anderson Press, 978-1783449286, £12.99 hbk

Cyril and Pat, Emily Gravett, Two Hoots, 978-1509857289, £6.99 pbk

Corey’s Rock, Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray, Otter-Barry Books, 978-1910959978, £10.99 hbk

Bright Sparks – Amazing Discoveries, Inventions and Designs by Women, Owen O’Doherty, the O’Brien Press, 978-1788490542, £13.99 hbk

Child of St Kilda, Beth Waters, Child’s Play, 978-1786281876, £12.99 hbk

The Deepest Breath Meg Grehan, Little Island, 978-1912417186, £6.99 pbk

Lulu’s First Day, Anna McQuinn, illus Rosalind Beardshaw, Alanna Max, 978-1907825217, £11.99 hbk

The Odyssey, David Walser, illus Jan Pienkowski, Puffin, 978-0241298794, £6.99 pbk

Monsters, Sharon Dogar, Andersen Press, 978-1783448029, £12.99 hbk

The Time of Green Magic Hilary McKay, Macmillan Children’s Books, 978-1529019230, £12.99 hbk

World of the Unknown Ghosts, Usborne, 978-1474976688, £7.99 pbk

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Stocking Fillers

Board Games to Create and Play, Kevan Davis and Viviane Schwarz, Pavilion Books, 978-1911624295, £22.00

Paddington’s Post, Michael Bond illus R.W. Alley, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008357245, £12.99

Christmas is Coming! Katie Hickey, Chronicle Books, 978-1452174075, £9.99

Sea Lights, Ruth Symons, illus Carolina Rabei, Templar Publishing, 978-1787414938, £12.99 hbk

Oh Christmas Tree!, Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, Macmillan Children’s Books, 978-1509827503, £6.99 pbk

The Football School Joke Book, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, illus Spike Gerrell, Walker Books, 978-1406393071, £5.99 pbk

The Treehouse Joke Book, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, Macmillan Children’s Books, 978-1529030440, £6.99 pbk

The Bolds’ Christmas Cracker, Julian Clary and David Roberts, Andersen Press, 978-1783448425, £6.99 pbk

Bad Nana That’s Snow Business, Sophy Henn, HarperCollins Children’s Books, 978-0008268138, £8.99 hbk

Zippel The Little Keyhole Ghost, Alex Rühle illus Axel Scheffler, Andersen Press, 978-1783449057, £9.99 hbk

Flip Flap Frozen, Axel Scheffler, Nosy Crow, 978-1788004985, £8.99 hbk

The Lonely Christmas Tree, Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 978-1408892923, £7.99 hbk

The Arty Fact Book, Gary Panton, Tate Publishing, 978-1849766616, £3.99 pbk