4 Great Books To Gift This Christmas

Looking for gifts? This Christmas, discover four unforgettable books that promise to delight every kind of reader, from little explorers and big dreamers to family adventurers and lovers of magical worlds. These books are sure to make a great gift for a loved one this Christmas.

Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences by Bec and Justin Lorrimer

A companion to the incredibly successful Complete Trip in a Van Guide to Australia, this is the ultimate bucket list inspiration for your next adventure, whether a weeks-long odyssey or a weekend getaway. After four laps, 280,000 kilometres and eight years of full-time travel with their three kids and their van, Bec and Justin Lorrimer are pretty confident they’ve checked out the best of Australia. Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences brings together our favourite travelling family’s top places and activities across the country, ideal for anybody wanting to encounter more of Australia’s astounding natural beauty—including those of us without a van, with limited time or perhaps hankering for a new challenge. Family day trips, pristine beaches, breathtaking landscapes, quirky pubs, remote waterholes, epic sunsets and simple recipes … Each entry holds special meaning for this intrepid clan and comes with their stunning photos and expert intel, hand-picked and ready for you to make your own memories. The perfect mix of inspirational and practical, and organised into easy-to-navigate categories, Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences will supply striking destinations for your next road trip or weekend away and is a superb gift for adventurous family and friends.

Buy a copy of Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences here.

We’re Going on a Sleigh Ride by Martha Mumford, illustrated by Cherie Zamazing

We’re going on a sleigh ride, HO! HO! HO! Can you find the hidden gifts? Whoosh! Off we go! Ho! Ho! Ho! Climb aboard Santa’s sleigh and join the fun as four bunnies set off on a thrilling festive adventure. With ten presents to find hidden under the flaps, it’s an action-packed treasure hunt! You’ll need to watch out for the obstacles along the way – snowy clouds, church spires, flocks of flying geese – and help the sleigh back to the North Pole in time for Christmas! This gorgeous board book is the perfect Christmas gift, full of festive fun and winter magic, from the bestselling author of We’re Going on an Elf Chase. The Bunny Adventures series is the perfect collection for young children, full of exciting adventures and fun lift-the-flap pages. Available in both paperback and board book.

Buy a copy of We’re Going on a Sleigh Ride here.

The Friendship Book by Zanni Louise, illustrated by Nicky Johnston

A joyful look at the friendships we make and how to nurture them from award-winning author Zanni Louise and illustrator Nicky Johnston. Friends can come from anywhere! From school, the park, the shopping square. A bookstore, circus, from the zoo … But how will we know what to do? How do we find friends, make friends or be a friend? Zanni Louise and Nicky Johnston weave a story of building friendship and community through kindness, inclusion and imagination in this delightful journey through a day of meeting, greeting, laughing and playing together. A perfect gift for every child, whether moving to a new neighbourhood, starting school, or starting a new class.

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Impossible Creatures – Gift Edition by Katherine Rundell

There’s a place where all the wildest stories began … From Katherine Rundell, winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize comes the first novel in a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark Materials Christopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil – before it’s too late.