Our Children's section can feel like an entire bookshop-in-miniature, required to cater to the tastes of all: from the most discerning young reader, to the child who has not (yet) developed an voracious appetite for books.
Within these pages are whole worlds that your child will step into, fall in love with, and never want to leave. But when the book is closed - never fear - our booksellers will always have another recommendation to keep them going. With that in mind, our booksellers reflect below on the books that have inspired in them a lifelong love of reading.
Our Children's Picture Book of the Year
Mouse on the River
Alice Melvin
' A gentle rhyming story beautifully illustrated. Mouse is embarking upon a new adventure taking him from his home in the woods, along the meandering river to the sea meeting lots of warm characters on the way to visit an old friend.' - Leanne, Children's Buyer, St Andrews
Other favourites:
Alice Hemming & Nicola Slater's The Snow Thief
Mikey Please's The Café at the Edge of the Woods
Mr Lepron's Mystery Soup
The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues
Beth Lincoln
Turtle Moon
Hannah Gold
Murder! By Narwhal!
Alex T. Smith
Skandar and the Skeleton Curse
A.F. Steadman
Bridget Vanderpuff and the Monster Mountain Mystery
Martin Stewart
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Rick Riordan
Cobweb
Michael Morpurgo
The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon
Inkheart 4: The Colour of Revenge HB
Cornelia Funke
The Final Year
Matt Goodfellow
The Café at the Edge of the Woods
Mikey Please
Bothered by Bugs
Emily Gravett
The World to Come
Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn
The Girl and the Robot Heart
Neal Hoskins
Jonty Gentoo - The Adventures of a Penguin
Julia Donaldson
The Carousel Horse
Tony Mitton
Oak, the Littlest Leaf Girl
Lucy Fleming
Luna Loves Gardening
Joseph Coelho
Tiny Jenny: Little Fairy, Big Trouble
Briony May Smith
If I had a polar bear
Alex Barrow and Gabby Dawnay
What Feelings Like Best
Tina Oziewicz
Frog's Day Out
Julia Donaldson
Spring Street All About Us: My Day
Shells... and what they hide inside
Helen Scales and Sonia Pulido
Fun Felt Learning: STOMP!
Priddy Books and Roger Priddy
Bugs
Patricia Hegarty
Animals Brag About Their Bottoms
Maki Saito
Kitten, Kitten, PEEKABOO
Campbell Books
The Baddies CBB
Julia Donaldson
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Wolf Brother
Michelle Paver
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Inside the Villains
Clotilde Perrin
Comet in Moominland
Tove Jansson
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book 1)
Jeff Kinney
The Wind Singer
William Nicholson
The Queen in the Cave
Júlia Sardà
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!
Emma Chichester Clark
Weslandia
Paul Fleischman
Wildwood
Colin Meloy
The Name of This Book is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch
I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen
The Green Ship
Quentin Blake
Keedie
Elle McNicoll
Avocado Baby
John Burningham
The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
Mac Barnett
Mina
Matthew Forsythe
It isn't Rude to be Nude
Rosie Haine
The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse
Mac Barnett
Oi Frog!
Kes Gray
Mighty Min
Melissa Castrillon
Weirdo
Zadie Smith and Nick Laird
What Feelings Do When No One's Looking
Tina Oziewicz
The Day Louis Got Eaten
John Fardell
The Pet Potato
Josh Lacey
The Pirate Mums
