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Discover Charlotte’s 10 Titles not to miss overleaf (p14-15)
For parents who want their chil-
dren to read about the true mean- ing of Christmas, there is Kate Thompson and Natelle Quek’s Christmas Lights on Mistletoe Street (Puffin), which is all about commu- nity, and for non-fiction lovers Joy to the Whole World! (Wide Eyed Editions) by Lucy Brownridge and Sang Miao, about how different countries celebrate Christmas, is a treat.
Children’s Book of the Month
(HarperCollins Children’s Books) and Matt Hunt’s How to Find a Yeti (Nosy Crow). There is also The Fantastical Safari, a sequel to the popular The Wonder Garden by Lucy Brownridge (Wide Eyed Editions). I, for one, am really excited about that.
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For parents who want their children to read about the true meaning of Christmas, there is Kate Thompson and Natelle Quek’s Christmas Lights on Mistletoe Street
There is also a plethora of festive
books in popular ongoing series, such as Ten Christmas Bottoms by Barry Timms and Mike Byrne (Macmillan Children’s Books), and Andy Shepherd is publishing a festive picture book, A Christmas Delivery (Templar), based on the Boy Who Grew Dragons series. October is a busy month for
picture books in general. In my Top 10 there is an incredibly impressive debut from artist Annie Booker, The Great Bear (Two Hoots), and Keira Knightley makes her first foray into publishing with I Love You Just the Same (Simon & Schuster Children’s). There are books that are heart-
warming, such as The House with the Little Red Door by Grace Easton (Thames & Hudson) and David Litchfield’s My Friend, Billy Whiskers (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books); there are books that are funny, including Oliver Jeffers’ I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book
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A teenage girl called Rizu has all the advantages of a middle-class life in Delhi: a large home in a gated community, well-off parents, servants and education in a good school. But her comfortable life is turned upside down after she is caught kissing the boyfriend of Sonu, her so-called friend and queen bee of the mean girls. This kicks off a chain of events that lead to
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Manjeet Mann Roar
Penguin, 2nd, £8.99, PB, 9780241647622
Rizu’s schoolmates and the wider community shunning her. She is branded a witch and the mounting hysteria culminates in an angry mob bringing a witch doctor to her door, which has tragic consequences. Rizu flees to join a gang of sari-wearing, stick-wielding women who fight injustice. Roar is a deftly layered social commentary
about the injustice faced by women from marginalised castes – Dalit women in particular. Mann was inspired partly by Sampat Pal’s Pink Sari Gang, a vigilante group that takes on everyone from rapists to crooked police officers in India. But this is not simply a revenge fantasy; it is also a meditation on what it means to stand up to injustice, the role of violence in making change (and why violence is often not the answer), and the personal cost of closing your eyes to injustice. A triumph.
iddle-grade is a bit more sparse this month, although the brilliant
Hannah Gold has a new adventure out, The Lone Husky (HarperCollins Children’s Books), and there are a couple of fully illustrated 9-12 adventures: The Horse Dreamer by Holly Surplice (Chicken House) and The Notted Island by Katherine Child (Flying Eye Books). Books that will be read by both
young people and adults are coming from Philip Pullman, whose third book in his Book of Dust series, The Rose Field, is being published by Penguin and David Fickling Books (illustrated by Christopher Wormell), and Robert Macfarlane and Luke Adam Hawker, whose poetic picture book The Night Creatures: Firefly will be out with Magic Cat. Finally, to YA. Witchcraft and
fantasy are still big business, and I particularly enjoyed the humour and inventiveness in Emma Hinds’ debut Witchlore (Usborne), a queer fantasy and love story. There are also big releases coming from Bloomsbury, Amber Hamilton’s debut Seven Deadly Thorns and from Simon & Schuster Children’s comes MA Kuzniar’s Forest of Hearts.
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