Children’s books - New Statesman

Imagination is stirred and laughs are shared in the best books for young readers this winter

By Amanda Craig

These stories about a boy and his animal friends reveal the futility of trying to foresee what will happen to…

By John Gray

The Bookstart scheme, which gives books to newborns, is a remnant from a more beneficent political era

By Anoosh Chakelian

Also this week: City kids on country farms, and keeping on lurruping

By Michael Morpurgo

Our action-packed list will thrill readers whether they’re three or 13.

By Amanda Craig

Writers reflect on photographs of their younger selves.