There are some fantastic new Christmas books for kids aged 5 to 12 publishing this year, including brand new titles by some of our favourite authors. Here are the Christmas books at the top of our list in 2022.
A well-chosen book is an excellent gift for any occasion. But knowing which children's book to choose can be tricky. Every year we read hundreds of children’s books in order to select the very best of the bunch for our subscription boxes. Here we suggest books for a range of ages and interests based on our back catalogue.
We enjoy making life that bit simpler for parents when it comes to anything book-related, so have put our heads together and come up with over 40 children’s book character costumes that are easy to recreate for World Book Day. Some require a bit more crafting than others but half term seems like the perfect time to get started and even enlist the children’s help too!
If you’re looking for some bookish inspiration this World Book Day, we think these quotes from some of our favourite children’s books are a great place to start.
World Book Day 2022 is nearly here! This year’s line up of authors includes some of our all-time favourites and we expect you’re going to have a tricky time choosing which of the brilliant World Book Day books for 2022 to take home with you. Never fear, we’re here to help…
If you’re looking for a subscription box for you or your kids, you are certainly not short of options. Of course, we’re a little biased, but we think a book subscription is just about the best thing to have pop through your letterbox each month. The benefits of a book subscription for children (and for grown-ups too) are many and varied. In no particular order, here are our top 5.
It is yet another bumper year for festive books for children. It’s one of our favourite genres – there’s nothing like a really Christmassy read to get you in the festive spirit! Of course, there are the classics that we all go back to year after year, but which new titles should you be adding to your collection this year? Here is our pick of six of the best new Christmas books for kids published in 2021.
It can be fun to feel a little scared, when snug and safe in the comfort of your own home. You can let your imagination run wild and get lost in a terrifically terrifying story. This is our top pick of spooky and creepy, yet age-appropriate, reads for 8-year-olds and up.
Sharing spooky books is a great way to add to kids’ excitement about upcoming Halloween celebrations. Whether you’re after something charming, funny or chilling, we’ve picked 7 of our favourite chapter books that we think kids aged 5 to 8 will enjoy.
Author Alastair Chisholm's bookOrion Lostwas a huge hit with our Cockatoo subscribers last year. Alastair’s brand new book,Adam-2, is published this week and we couldn’t be more excited about it! Here Alastair tells us all about what inspired the book and the wonderful cast of characters, who we know you’re going to love.
The book we sent our Cockatoo subscribers this month is an exciting adventure story set in the Amazon rainforest that puts kids front and centre, celebrating their bravery, resilience and sense of what is just and fair. We asked author Emma Rea to tell us all about what inspired the book, the incredible cast of characters, and her travels to the Amazon.
We love a good puzzle, so the codebreaking in Mickey and the Animal Spies by Anne Miller went down a treat at Parrot Street HQ. Here Anne tells us all about the book and recommends some of her own favourite detective books for kids.
