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Enchanted kingdoms, a history of music and the return of Dogger ... great titles for Christmas and the new year
The last children’s book roundup of the year boasts some tinglingly good titles and last-minute gifts, many with voyage themes to carry us onwards into 2021.
For Whovians of nine-plus, Dave Rudden’s The Wintertime Paradox (BBC Children’s) is a gorgeous anthology of Christmas-themed stories with the unpredictable flair of the Tardis itself. Encompassing terrors from Plasmavores to Autons, and with appearances from River Song and Davros, it’s full of delicious fear and complex emotion conveyed in Rudden’s trademark bell-clear prose. Alexis Snell’s linocuts amplify both tenderness and threat. Continue reading...