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Get them to turn over a new leaf this Christmas
YOU can’t beat a book to fill their Christmas stocking and if you’re not sure what to choose, Waterstones has come up with a Festive Top Five to give you a few ideas.
Leading the way is Greta
Thunberg who has proved, as her book title
proclaims, No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference.
Starting with a solitary protest in August 2018, the Swedish teenager has encouraged millions to engage with the issue of climate change.
A collection of her speeches, this is Greta in her own words, and Waterstones’ exclusive gift edition (£14.99) includes five new speeches from
Paris, Vienna, Washington, New York and Montreal alongside photographs from her family’s collection.
Teenagers will be
inspired by her extraordinary journey so far.
For fiction-lovers, Snow Dragon by Abi Elphinstone and Fiona
Woodcock (£7.99) is a delight. Set in Griselda Bone’s gloomy orphanage where daydreaming is banned, skipping is forbidden and Christmas is well and truly cancelled, things are bleak for Phoebe and her sausage dog Herb, but magic awaits… Age range: Five and up.
The Beast of Buckingham
Palace, £14.99 is David Walliams’ first foray into the realm of science fiction. Set in a distant future. it sees a sheltered young prince battling a motley collection of mythical monsters and beasties in
London’s ruins. Age range: 7-12.
In The Secret Commonwealth, £20, the second volume of Sir Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now 20, and her daemon Pantalaimon, drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world they’d no idea existed. Age range: 14+.
Frostheart by Jamie Littler,
£7.99, was Waterstones’ children’s book of the month for October and November.
In the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold is cut off by monsters beneath the
Snow Sea. There, a boy called Ash waits for the return of his parents, doing his best to avoid his grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu. Age range 9-12.