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These recommended releases have the power to amuse, lift the spirits and give young children a wealth of useful and interesting information, says Karen Hart.

Take flight with some feisty princesses on an all-action route to freedom, laugh all the way to outer space with an out-of-this world adventure, share madcap capers with feline friends as they go cat-astrophically crazy, and tuck into more cheesy fun with everyone’s favourite Supermouse as a sunshine collection of summer children’s books hit the shelves.

On National Hugging Day a best-selling author shares socially distanced ideas to connect people By Louise Glen  |  Updated: 12:42, 21 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Eoin McLaughlin. A best-selling children’s author who wrote about how to show socially distant love is encouraging people to find alternatives to hugging this year on National Hugging Day as part of Eden Project Communities #WinterWarmers campaign saying “You can’t put a price on giving someone a hug”. A childre...

High Rise Mystery series, which updates the children’s detective genre for our times. Children’s literature has a long relationship with the uncanny. My very favourite 2020 book was a little bit Addams Family, and a little bit metaphysical. The Monsters of Rookhaven (Macmillan) by Pádraig Kenny imagined a village where the resident monsters keep to themselves in exchange for what scarce meat the villagers can tithe to them in wartime. When a human girl and her injured brother accidentally wander into the monsters’ garden, one misfit monster-girl – Mirabelle – makes friends and i...

on social media Ss Covid-19 tightened its grip in March, forcing schools, bookshops, and libraries to close, so the children’s book world responded in characteristically generous style, producing an explosion of free online content to educate, entertain and support children and families. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler created a series of Covid-related cartoons featuring beloved characters (“The Gruffalos stayed in the Gruffalo cave’”) and children’s laureate Cressida Cowell read daily chapters of How to Train Your Dragon. Picture book creator Rob Biddulph became a vi...