Our twelfth and final choice is not one but many! If you are looking for books that aren’t necessarily festive but are downright wonderful, our former winning and shortlisted stories are available from libraries and bookshops.
We can’t recommend highly enough our 2019 winner How to be a Lion by Ed Vere (Puffin) - and also Gemma Merino’s excellent The Cow Who Climbed a Tree (Macmillan) , which won in 2016. There are also plenty to choose from our amazing shortlists, including Almost Anything by Sophie Henn (Penguin), Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival (Bloomsbury) and Baby’s First Bank Heist by Jim Whalley and Stephen Collins.
Whatever you choose, have a very happy, book-filled Christmas!