Best children’s books I read in 2018: from Dimity Powell
Dimity Powell is a children’s author who recently published At the End of Holyrood Lane.
This is super hard btw but here are my attempts at narrowing things down – not something that I’m naturally good at! (You’ll note, I’ve blatantly ignored the rule of three concept, apologies)
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Non-Fiction: Real Food Kids Will Love by Annabel Karmel – there’s been a flood of Great Women, Great Guy type NF books this year and the Little People series is a fave, insects featured a lot too, but this one takes the cake, as it were.
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YA: Living on Hope Street by Demet Divaroren ties Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
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Junior Fiction older readers: Natural Born Leader Loser by Oliver Phommavanh
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Picture Books older readers: The Incredible Freedom Machines by Kirli Saunders and Matt Ottley & If all the world were…by Joseph Coelho and Allison Colpoys
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Verse Novel: Leave Taking by Lorraine Marwood
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Best New Comer: Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein YA
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Most interesting / daring issue-based picture book: At The End of Holyrood Lane by Dimity Powell and Nicky Johnston (sorry, couldn’t help myself!) & Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
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Norah
Fabulous list, Dimity. You are so widely read. 🙂