Best children’s and YA books of 2022
This has been an outstanding year for children’s literature, with conservationist, comic, reflective and adventurous books all finding enthralled readers. In picture books, Britannica’s Baby Encyclopedia by Sally Symes, illustrated by Hanako Clulow, is aimed at 0-3. Filled with crowd-pleasing topics such as numbers, shapes, animals and food, this big, bright, thoughtfully curated board book is ideal for babies to leaf through (and for toddlers to demand their favourite sections over and over again).
A gorgeous fable of self-acceptance, by Poonam Mistry (Templar) follows small, shy Panther as he tries to emulate Lion’s magnificent mane and Tiger’s stripes before finding the courage to climb into the treetops and look out into the night, as dark and exquisite
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