Last Sunday's edition of the Sunday Business Post featured four pages of recommended books for children and teenagers.
Thank you to Nadine O'Regan, Books and Arts Editor at the paper for devoting so much space to books for younger readers. It was a pleasure to speak to her about children's books, along with Kim Harte from Raven Books and David O'Callaghan from Eason.
Here are the titles we recommended:
Age 0 to 2:
Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace and the poetry of A A Milne
A Bit Lost by Chris Haughton
Hugless Dougless Finds a Hug by David Melling
Age 2 to 5:
Journey by Aaron Becker
Pandamonium at Peek Zoo by Kevin Waldron
That is Not a Good Idea by Mo Willems
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
Spider Sandwiches by Claire Freeman
The Sleeping Giant by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick
The Night Before Christmas, illustrated by Lizbeth Zwerger
Age 5 to 8:
Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman
Goth Girl by Chris Riddell
Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs by Gary Northfield
The Sleepwalkers by Vivienne Schwartz
Age 9+:
Wimpy Kid
Dork Diaries
Big Nate
Timmy Failure by Stephen Pastis
David Walliams
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
Coco Caramel by Cathy Cassidy
Even and the Hidden Dairy by Judi Curtin
Darcy Burdock by Laura Dockrill
The Ransom of Dond by Siobhan Dowd
Geek Girl by Holly Smale
Teens/YA:
Veronica Roth (for Hunger Games fans)
The Legend Series by Marie Lu (again for dystopia fans)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Everyday by David Levithan
Back to Blackbrick by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Happy Christmas!
