Nine-year-old Megan Fawcett loves football and is desperate to be on her school team. She tries everything to get the coach to notice her, even wearing a tiara! But nothing works until... #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #football thebookseekers.com/book/helena-...

Comic book style Greek myths thebookseekers.com/show/series/...

A heart-wrenching true story about life in a Kenyan refugee camp that will restore your faith in real-life happy endings. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #graphicnovels thebookseekers.com/book/victori...

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Olga Shtonda from Nicola Davies's picturebook The Map of Me, about locating yourself in a new place, and about the past and the future. A collage effect composition with fascinating detail, in a beautiful, reassuring book. Templar Books 29 Jan. @templarbooks.bsky.social

Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love and loss in this tale of a girl who loses her father. How will she find the meaning of life now? #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #grief thebookseekers.com/book/oliver-...

A stunning picture book, where two different voices tell their own experience of the same moments, day after day. There are days that seem very average, and others that are extraordinary and surprising. #bookrecommendatiosn #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/alice-g...

A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/dave-sh...

India, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/nazneen...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Tom Percival from his picturebook The Wonder, out in paperback from Simon & Schuster on 15 Jan, about being alert to the small joys in our lives. A vivid, digital, chiaroscuro combination of photographs and artwork. @tompercival.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social

Unable to speak since separation from his parents, Kester unexpectedly finds he is able to communicate with a cockroach who helps him to break out from his prison-like existence. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/piers-t...

Clay has grown up under the mountain, chosen along with four other dragonets to fulfil a mysterious prophecy and end the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/t-t-sut...

How a little girl befriends her elderly neighbour who has dementia. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/bethan-...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Ruchi Mhasane: The Beautiful Layers of Me. Engaging visual storytelling about a child made to feel bad about traditional dress. On yesterday’s Inclusive Books for Children shortlists. Text by Sophia Payne, Walker Books. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @ibc-reads.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Britta Teckentrup from There Are Mammals Everywhere. Textured, expressive, charming depictions of grey wolves and their habitat, with plants providing perfectly complementary dots of colour. Big Picture Press 1 Jan. @brittateckentrup.bsky.social @bonnierbooks.bsky.social

Maftu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/armstro...

Sometimes I find it really tough to make sure I'm not in a huff because there's simply so much stuff that makes me want to yell. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/simon-p...

If we want libraries to be engines of social mobility we need investment in digital books and to give schools the ability to auto register pupils with the public library service. Parents are the barrier to access for lots of kids. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Four children step through a wardrobe door and into Narnia, a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change and a great sacrifice. thebookseekers.com/book/pauline...

It's Christmastime, and Mortimer Mouse, unhappy in his cramped, cold hole, goes in search of a new home. #Christmas #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/chapman...

Day 15 of the #NewIllustrationOfTheDay #AdventCalendar quiz. Two children’s book characters whose name begins with O. Your task: name the ILLUSTRATORS. (Answers will be posted on Christmas Eve.)

Mr. Grumps has the holiday blahs. And then, just a few days before Christmas, his cat Loretta disappears. Will he be able to find Loretta before Christmas and restore the holiday cheer to East 88th Street? thebookseekers.com/book/bernard...

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse... #bookrecommendations #Christmas thebookseekers.com/book/clement...

On a bitter winter night in the land of Judea, a beautiful golden cat is desperate to find a safe place to give birth to her kittens. #bookrecommendations #Christmas #Nativity thebookseekers.com/book/robert-...

Day 4 #NewIllustrationoftheDay #adventcalendar. Two children's book characters beginning with D. Both loved, though one of them is inanimate. Your task today: name the two connected ILLUSTRATORS. Enjoy the pictures.

Two scenes by Richard Scarry to gladden the hearts of all introverts 🙂

Day 3 #NewIllustrationoftheDay #adventcalendar. Two iconic children's book characters beginning with C. Your task: name the two ILLUSTRATORS. Have fun, and enjoy the pictures.

It's the last day of school before Christmas vacation when a mysterious meteorite crashes through the classroom window and a genie pops out! #bookrecommendations #christmas #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/dan-gut...

Tomie dePaola tells the Christmas story through the eyes of a group of birds who witness the Nativity. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #Christmas thebookseekers.com/book/tomie-d...

Day 2 #NewIllustrationoftheDay #adventcalendar. Two iconic children's book characters beginning with B. Your task: name the two ILLUSTRATORS. Have fun, and enjoy the pictures.

How two friends first meet as lonely newcomers to a city at Christmas. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #Christmas thebookseekers.com/book/emma-ch...

Herbert Slewg and his hapless, video game-addicted neighbor Alex Filby have stumbled upon what Einstein could only theorize about: a wormhole through the space/time continuum. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/peter-n...

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/john-bo...

A pause from the wintry #newillustrationoftheday images to draw attention to Helen Oxenbury’s current exhibition at the Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire and the fact that she and I will be in conversation at noon at the gallery tomorrow (28th). Here are the grandmothers from Trish Cooke’s So Much.

Computer code just got dangerous in this action-packed spy adventure. #bookrecommendations thebookseekers.com/book/sophie-...

Another wintry #NewIllustrationoftheDay, a minimalist snowy spread with a sense of depth by Matt Hunt from How to Find a Yeti, in which the sharp-eyed can spot the outline of a yeti louring over the distant row of grey trees. The paperback published this autumn by Nosy Crow. @nosycrow.bsky.social

Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII, but as the King's favourite, Will gains many enemies in Court. #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/berlie-...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Nick Butterworth from a 2025 board book, The Greatest Snowman, in the Percy the Park-Keeper series Stories from Percy’s Park. Acrobatic squirrels on a sledge demonstrate Butterworth’s humour, fine draughtsmanship and skill with dramatic action. @harpercollins.bsky.social

Patrick wants a dog. Oz wants a friend. #bookrecommednations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/p-j-lyn...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sarah Warburton from A Christmas Delivery with text by Andy Shepherd. The sequel to The Boy who Grew Dragons. Vertical spread in which a flock of colourful dragons delivers an ice-formed wheelbarrow full of presents. @sarahwarburton.bsky.social @templarbooks.bsky.social

A Hag, an orphan boy called Ivo, Ulf the troll and wizard Brian Brainsweller are sent to rescue a princess from an ogre. Can they be any match for the gruesome, terrifying, ghastly, flesh-eating Ogre of Oglefort? #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/alex-t-...

In this surreal collection of short vignettes, we are transported to the world of Sato the Rabbit: a world very much like our own, yet one that is imbued with an added dimension of wonder and curiosity. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/michael...

Hedgehog and Rabbit enjoy eating cabbages and looking for snails in their peaceful garden. But when a scary, swirling wind comes up, the two must find a way to face their fears. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/gomez/h...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jan Pienkowski. Annunciation, with angel arriving as Mary hangs out the washing, from The First Christmas with text from the King James Bible. Edition with illustrations in silhouette first published in 1981 and now re-issued by Puffin Books. @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Tony Meeuwissen (digression from Christmas books) from a reissue of his Remarkable Animals, out from Otter-Barry Books on 13 Nov. One of 1000 permutations using 10 animals. In this case, Ruby-Topaz hummingbird with trunkfish and caterpillar. @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

This WWII adventure reminds us that times of war call for bravery, brains and teamwork from even the most unlikely heroes. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/deborah...

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Sydney Smith. It's time I think for a run of Christmas books, starting with the paperback of Santa's First Christmas by Mac Barnett, out from Puffin since Oct. How Santa got to enjoy Christmas Day himself. Smith works his usual magic with light @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

This biography shows how a self-taught scientist was the first to observe the microbial life in and around us. #bookrecommendatins #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/lori-al...

Reluctantly touring Halifax with his family, twelve-year-old Laz Berenger accidentally stumbles through a time tunnel to a 1745 war zone. thebookseekers.com/book/karen-b...

When the Tooting family find a vast abandoned engine and fit it to their camper van, they have no idea of the adventure that lies ahead. thebookseekers.com/book/joe-ber...

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Australian author/illustrator Bob Graham from A Hatful of Dreams, a picturebook about domesticity and magic, family and community, imagination and Grandad's hat. Light-heartedly drawn, prettily coloured & carefully observed. Walker Books 6 Nov. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social