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February Book Recommendations

Whether between family, friends, or significant others, love brings joy and gives meaning to our lives. Our recommendations this month are made up of titles that celebrate love in all its forms. 1. Guess How Much I Love You Age rating: 0-5 Sometimes, when you love someone very, very much, you want to find a way of describing how much you treasure them. But, as Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare discover, love is not always an easy thing to measure. The story of Little and Big Nutbrown Hares' efforts to express their love for each other has become a publishing phenomenon. This lovely board book edition is one that children will ask for time and again. 2. I...

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January Book Recommendations

Take a look at these fascinating non-fiction titles suitable for all ages and learn more about the world this 2023 - no matter how old you are! Gaia Goddess of Earth Age rating: 6+ Imagine you made something that was so beautiful and powerful that everyone wanted to take it for themselves. And then you had to watch them destroy it. Would you fight for it?Meet Gaia, the ancient Greek goddess who created the Earth and the universe that stretched beyond it. She raised trees from their roots to the sky, sent waterfalls tumbling over cliffs and created the tides that sloshed on the shore. She gifted her creation to animals and mortals, and watched as they made it their...

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December Book Recommendations

This festive season we have put together some titles to spread the holiday spirit! Keep reading for our top recommendations this month by award-winning authors. 1. The Book of Hopes Age rating: 8+ Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2020.In difficult times, what children really need is hope. And in that spirit, bestselling author Katherine Rundell emailed some of the children's writers and artists whose work she loved most:'I asked them to write something very short, fiction or non-fiction, or draw something that would make the children reading it feel like possibility-ists: something that would make them laugh or wonder or snort or smile. The response was magnificent, which shouldn't have surprised me, because children's writers and illustrators are...

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November Book Recommendations: A Little Drop Of Kindness

In honour of World Kindness Day held on the 13th of this month, we have put together a set of titles meant to inspire kindness, nurture community, and ignite courage. Change Sings: A Children's Anthem Age recommendation: 0-5 years In this stirring, much-anticipated picture book by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.With lyrical text and rhythmic illustrations that build to a dazzling crescendo by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long, Change Sings is a...

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October Book Recommendations: Empowering Our Girls

In honour of the International Day of the Girl Child which is to be held on the 11th of October, we at MILK have put together some special recommendations this month to empower and uplift our girls. Malala's Magic Pencil  Age recommendation: 0-5 Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them.As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew...

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