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Veronica Price
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Chartered librarian, MCLIP. NHS Knowledge &Evidence Specialist. Former School Librarian. Posts about library matters and books.
Blog: https://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/
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Day 1 of my children’s Christmas book recommendations, some newly published, some much-loved older titles.
#AStockingFullOfSpies by @redbreastedbird.bsky.social follows classic murder mystery tropes, for #MG readers.
#UkKidLit

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#MG Christmas Fiction: A Stocking Full of Spies by Robin Stevens
Published by Puffin Books, 11 September 2025, ISBN: 978-0241429952 A Stocking Full of Spies is the third middle grade novel in The Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens. It is set during…
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The best! The most impressive! The weirdest! Today on the blog I'm looking back at the year that was in children's literature. 100scopenotes.com/2025/12/08/2...
2025 Children’s Lit: The Year in Miscellanea
It’s time to take a look back at the year that was in children’s lit miscellanea.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Day 9 of my children’s Christmas book recommendations & today I offer you #TheChristmasWishtastrophe by #CariadLloyd illustrated by #MaPe
#UkKidLit

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#MG Christmas Books: The Christmas Wish-tastrophe by Cariad Lloyd, illustrated by Ma Pe
Cover art by Ma Pe, published by Hachette Children’s Books, 10 October 2024, ISBN: 978-1444971484 The Christmas Wish-tastrophe is a charming, funny, warm-hug-in-a-book which I recommend to my…
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December 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Day 8 of my children’s Christmas books recommendations & it’s an anthology compiled by @acaseforbooks.bsky.social
#AChildrensLiteraryChristmas
Published by @britishlibrary.bsky.social
#UkKidLit

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#Christmas Anthology: A Children’s Literary Christmas, compiled and edited by Anna James
Published 2019 by The British Library, ISBN: 978-0712352796 This wonderful anthology of Christmas tales is a perfect collection for busy teachers, parents and carers, and children to dip into for b…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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A gorgeous middle grade fairy tale, Magpie Girl by Rowan Foxwood publishes 01/01 and is one to save your Christmas book tokens for.

#UsborneBooks #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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Magpie Girl by Rowan Foxwood
Cover illustration by Crystal Kung © Usborne Publishing, 2026 As we rapidly head towards the start of 2026, it’s exciting to see some brilliant reads are ahead of us and what better way to ce…
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December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Day 7 of my children’s Christmas books recommendations, and today I’m celebrating #OperationNativity by #JennyPearson, illustrated by #KatieKear and published by #Usborne
#UkKidLit

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#MG Christmas Books: Operation Nativity by Jenny Pearson, illustrated by Katie Kear
Cover image by Katie Kear, published by Usborne, 9 November 2023, ISBN: 978-1801315111 Jenny Pearson has built a reputation in the middle grade books market for her talent of creating stories which…
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December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Day 6 of my children’s Christmas book recommendations, & it’s a brilliant #MG cosy crime novel #MurderAtChristmas by @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social published by @nosycrow.bsky.social
#UkKidLit

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#MG Christmas Review: Murder at Christmas by Fleur Hitchcock
Cover art by Elisa Paganelli, published by Nosy Crow, 16 October 2025, ISBN: 978-1805132240 Murder at Christmas ticked all of the boxes that make a book a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience fo…
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December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Gorgeously illustrated by Lauren O’Hara, this new edition of 6 of Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children is out now from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social and would make a beautiful Christmas gift.

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children illustrated by Lauren O’Hara
Cover illustration © Lauren O’Hara 2025 It’s not often that I review anything that hasn’t been written recently – I do occasionally record my thoughts on books published a f…
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December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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#Viewfromabook The perfect read for today. 🤣🌧🌧🌧🌂#bookbloggers #librarians @carnegiemedals.bsky.social @susancahill.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social #UKKidLit
Dark blue & blue green background with clouds & rain drops 💦 & word from title- Between strategically placed.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Day 5 of my children’s Christmas book recommendations: a charming picture book #IAmWishingEveryMinuteForChristmas by #LaurenChild published by @simonkids.bsky.social
#UkKidLit

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#Christmas Picture Book Review: I Am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas by Lauren Child
Cover image by Lauren Child, Published by Simon & Schuster, 9 October 2025, ISBN: 978-1398542792 A new Charlie and Lola picture book, published 25 years after the first tale of these delightful…
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December 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Day 4 of my children’s Christmas book recommendations: the enchanting #TheMiracleOnEbenezerStreet by #CatherineDoyle published by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
#UkKidLit

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#MG Christmas Review: The Miracle on Ebenezer Street by Catherine Doyle
Cover image by Pedro Riquelme, published by Penguin Random House/Puffin Books, 1 October 2020, ISBN: 978-0241434277 This is a book that I have enjoyed revisiting each Christmas since its publicatio…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Day 3 of my Christmas Book recommendations is perfect for emerging independent readers: #DaisyAndTheTroubleWithChristmas by #KesGray illustrated by #GarryParsons
#UkKidLit

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Christmas Books Review: Daisy and the Trouble With Christmas by Kes Gray
Cover image by Nick Sharratt, published by Red Fox, 2009, ISBN: 978-1862304970 As you can probably guess from the battered state of the front cover, Daisy and the Trouble With Christmas was a much …
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December 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Thank you to Books for Keeps for the lovely review of The Feathered Book.

"Anyone who wants … to immerse themselves in a deceptively cosy world, will very much enjoy Nutbrown’s imagination."

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#UKKidlit #childrensbooks #BookBloggers
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🗓🎄#BookHaikus - Advent Quiz Guess a book a day @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #BookBloggers #Librarians #UKKidLit
December 1st

Pip and Hannah are

courageous palindrome friends

whom Jack will protect.📚

December 2nd

Stranded on a stac

desperately in need of

refuge and release. 📚
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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A fabulous adventure set in colonial India, The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social publishes 15/01 for 9+ readers 🐒

@nosycrow.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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The Golden Monkey Mystery by Piu DasGupta
Cover illustration copyright © Helen Crawford-White, 2026 Whenever I read a book to which I want a sequel or that I think should be extended into a series, I usually envisage the story continuing c…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Day 2 of my Christmas book recommendations is a frosty tale to warm the heart: #TheMiraculousSweetmakersTheFrostFair by #NatashaHastings, illustrated by #AlexTSmith published by @harpercollins.bsky.social

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#MG Christmas Review: The Miraculous Sweetmakers – The Frost Fair by Natasha Hastings, illustrated by Alex T Smith
Cover image by Alex T Smith, published by Harper Collins, October 2023, ISBN: 978-0008496081. A perfect book to read when the first frosts appear in the run up to Christmas, The Miraculous Sweetmak…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Day 1 of my children’s Christmas book recommendations, some newly published, some much-loved older titles.
#AStockingFullOfSpies by @redbreastedbird.bsky.social follows classic murder mystery tropes, for #MG readers.
#UkKidLit

vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2025/12/01/m...
#MG Christmas Fiction: A Stocking Full of Spies by Robin Stevens
Published by Puffin Books, 11 September 2025, ISBN: 978-0241429952 A Stocking Full of Spies is the third middle grade novel in The Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens. It is set during…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Every Wednesday, I’m going to post a children’s book I’ve enjoyed.

If you’ve read it too, or you want to share another book, join in.

Picklewitch & Jack, by Claire Barker.

Why do I like it? Read the alt text!

#ukkidlit #kidlituk
Photograph of my hand holding a copy of Picklewitch and Jack in front of a brightly patterned cushion. Jack, named Lord Smartypants by the children in his previous school, doesn’t know that at the bottom of the garden at his new house there lives a little witch. Fudgenuts and bats’ bums! Jack’s life is about to take a wild turn. I love this book because (a) it made me laugh so much and (b) I want to be Picklewitch. If I’d read it when I’d been eight I’d have taken up residence in a tree and never washed again. The illustrations are by Teemu Jehani and they are perfect.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I'm excited to be a Reading Champion for @booksfortopics.bsky.social’s #BookFriday campaign on Nov 28th!

This is a celebration of the best books in our schools & libraries. My recommendation is Ice Apprentices by Jacob North

There's a FREE resource kit for schools too! Link in the next post!
Poster showing my ugly mug, the cover of the book and my 5-word recommendation: adventure, excitement, monsters, diversity and secrets.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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A helpful and really positive guide to writing stories for pleasure, Making It Up As You Go Along by Patricia Forde, illustrated by Mary Murphy, is out now for 8+ readers from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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Making It Up as You Go Along: A Children’s Guide to Writing Stories by Patricia Forde, illustrated by Mary Murphy
Cover illustration © Mary Murphy 2025 Unlike writing nonfiction texts, crafting stories is something that even those less enthusiastic children that I’ve taught have often enjoyed. There is s…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#TheFeatheredBook by @charlienutbrown.bsky.social illustrated by #ewabeniakharemska & published by @everywithwords.bsky.social is brilliant! Think: The Wind In The Willows meets The Name of The Rose!
#UkKidLit
Here’s my review👇

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MG Fiction Review: The Feathered Book by Charlie Nutbrown, illustrated by Ewa Beniak-Haremska
Cover image by Holly Ovenden, published September 2025 by Everything With Words, ISBN:978-1911427476 The Feathered Book is a magnificent middle grade debut by author Charlie Nutbrown, with internal…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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📚WWW meme- What I’ve just read, What I’m currently reading and what I am reading next. 📚#bookbloggers #librarians @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #UKKidLit #Libraries #New York #Historicalfiction #MG #animaladventures 🦁#fantasy
Savannah landscape. Orange, purple and blue shadows. Sky with streaks of orange and blue. Flying birds in silhouette. Trees. Cute golden haired lion cub with hazel eyes in foreground. Woman with red hair in up style dressed in yellow reading a book walking away from grand building with marble frontage in Beaux Arts architecture style with pillars, arched window & stained glass. Different hues of deep blue , sky blue and turquoise representing rain clouds. Droplets. Title in bold letters of contrasting shades of blue.
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A thrilling middle grade mystery set in Florence, Isaac Turner is back for his 3rd adventure in #TheGalileoHeist by Sam Sedgman. Out 12/02 from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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The Galileo Heist (Isaac Turner Investigates 3) by Sam Sedgman
Cover illustration © David Dean, 2026 Mystery covers such a wide variety of reads, from the most gentle of stories to those that feature gruesome murders, and while I enjoy books that fall into bot…
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November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Superbly plotted with lots of twists #MurderatChristmas @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #kidlit #fiction book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dwB
Murder At Christmas
Murder At ChristmasFleur HitchcockNosy Crow Having been at boarding school in England while her mother (a diplomat), father and younger brother, Billy, have been living in Australia, Grace is excit…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Ticklepenny and Pecksniff descend the library steps. An illustration by Ewa Beniak-Haremska from The Feathered Book

#illustrations #kidlit #kidlituk #UKKidlit #booksky #childrensbooks
A dormouse and and a squirrel descend a flight of steps in a library inside a tree
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM