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...
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...
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...
