BOOKS FOR KEEPS
is the UK’s leading, independent children’s book magazine. It was launched in 1980 and ever since has been reviewing hundreds of new children’s books each year and publishing articles on every aspect of writing for children. There are over 12,500 reviews on our new website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children’s authors and illustrators.

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In a fast-paced world dominated by screens, instant information, and amidst a reading for pleasure crisis, Zaro Weil’s nature poetry offers something precious and needed: space to breathe. Her latest poetry collection, I Hear The Trees, the third in an …
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This issue’s cover illustration is from The First Year by Matt Goodfellow, cover illustration by Joe Todd-Stanton. Thanks to Otter-Barry Books for their help with this cover.