The best new children's books to read this Christmas
Clare Fulton highlights children’s books promoting diversity, social justice, and environmental themes with selections for all ages, including classics and innovative non-fiction.
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Julia Lindblom is an investigative journalist with e-commerce as her area of expertise. Just in time for the Christmas rush, her book "The Last Mile" is coming out, which highlights the downsides of online shopping and who pays the price for free shipping. Sara Martinsson has read it.
The best children’s books for Christmas 2025
If you grew up, as I did, in a New Statesman-reading family in the 1960s, you are likely to have been forged by Joan Aiken, Geoffrey Trease and CS Lewis – just as our own millennial children were by JK Rowling, Cressida Cowell and Philip Pullman. Who are the new writers for the New Statesman readers of the future? Lauren Child’s I Am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas (Simon & Schuster, £12.99, 3+) capture Lola’s yearning impatience. Charlie sug…
As Christmas approaches, we offer you a set of books to offer to the youngest, from the cradle to the early teens. Comic, documentary or illustrated album this year garnish the hood of Santa Claus.
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