Children's Book Club 2026
Each year our panel recommends children’s books on different themes and for different age groups and will feature old favourites, classics, new releases, books you can borrow from the library and books to delight the whole family.
This year we have recommendations from these authors:
Frank Cottrell-Boyce - award-winning author and screenwriter and the current Waterstones Children’s Laureate.
Katherine Rundell - award-winning author of Impossible Creatures, Super-Infinite, The Golden Mole, Rooftoppers and more.
Space
Frank:
The Jamie Drake Equation - Christopher Edge
Here We are - Oliver Jeffers
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Katherine:
Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Look Up! - Nathan Byron and Dapo Adeola.
Series of books
Frank:
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Supernatural Investigations series (featuring the character Amari) - BB Alston
Anne Of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Katherine:
Chrestomanci books - Diana Wynne Jones
Murder Most Unladylike series - Robin Stevens
Dragon Mountain series - Katie and Kevin Tsang.
The Moomins - Tove Jansson
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
