Children's books for Christmas gifts
Children's books for Christmas - picture books by Ben Manley, Sharon King-Chai, James Carter, Christopher Lloyd, Sandra Dieckmann and more.
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Buy a book this Christmas!
Books can be read, reread, shared, talked about, thought about, borrowed, empathised with and remembered.
Books reflect dreams and change lives.
Here's our list of children's books that make great present
25.11.2025 15:35 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Handwritten quote on a white sheet with an illustrated face at the bottom and pink hearts around the text. The quote reads:
"If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting."
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If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social
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Exactly. It's surely illegal for political parties to accept foreign money (not that that's likely to deter Farridge)
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Shame on the BBC
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The pitfalls of the Bezos behemoth
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldnโt as she hadnโt met the spending threshold (she doesnโt use Amazon much)
25.11.2025 10:46 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My guide to populist-proofing your democracy โ before itโs too late | Timothy Garton Ash
From public service broadcasting to an independent judiciary, these are the things that we must fight to keep, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
A guide to protecting democracies from the populists with a checklist of things to keep an eye on:
โFor whatโs painfully clear is that once youโve lost any of these essential checks and balances, they are very hard to restore
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25.11.2025 10:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Literary fiction set in the ENGLISH FENLANDS - TripFiction
Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen, literary fiction set in the English Fenland. Our Numbered Bones by Katya Belen is a moving examination of the feelings
Coming 12 February 2026
Literary fiction set in the Fenlands UK
Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen
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"..a moving examination of the feelings of a woman dealing with grief.."
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25.11.2025 08:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A pure fluke. Not great with plants generally. However, we do have a cactus grown from a seed we brought back from Colorado years ago, and itโs grown to a point where it looks ready to return to the desert! Another fluke: none of the many other seeds germinated.
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I especially loved the audiobook narrated by Siรขn Thomas - who sounded uncannily like our Ukrainian daughter-in-law at the time
24.11.2025 14:35 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the US. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686 in the pursuit of religious freedomโ๏ธJerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-19ka
23.11.2025 20:45 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
What a bleak future awaits humanity if we give ourselves up to these "stochastic parrots" (I so love that term, sums up genAI perfectly)
24.11.2025 14:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โMonsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.โ
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24.11.2025 12:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
Jimmy Cliff - Miss Jamaica
Everybody is going to share โThe Harderโฆโ but I want to share an earlier song with celebrations of Jamaican ๐ฏ๐ฒ Independence (in 1962).
Hereโs โMiss Jamaicaโ
Rest in absolute power, King. ๐ You will be so missed, Jimmy.
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That's good to know, though I moved away long ago. Back in the day it did have the feel of a cultural backwater. Very few interesting performances ventured further west than Bristol
24.11.2025 09:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Something for Christmas: a boxset of Jean Vigo films to be issued in December, including L'Atalante and Zรฉro de conduite, the inspiration for Lindsay Anderson's If
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That was always one of my frustrations growing up in Exeter
24.11.2025 08:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Glorious, isn't it? It spent many years in the porch looking a little wretched at times, so a couple of years ago we put it outside in the warmer weather and we bring it in November. It seems to love the regimen, and now blooms both in summer and in winter
24.11.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas
Perfect for fans of The White Lotus, Knives Out and anโฆ
This was a fun read with a lot of twists and turns and the dog doesn't die, so I'm happy (that is a spoiler I personally need).
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23.11.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
2014 "The Box" Andy Goldsworthyโs Leaf SculptureโSycamore Leaves each one gathered, shaped, and pinned together using only natural thorns. No glue, no string. Just leaves, patience, and a profound connection to natureโs forms.
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Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
Poets: cybersecurity threats
"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
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23.11.2025 10:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Message to that p.o.s trump.....
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The Christmas cactus always puts on a great show as we approach the festive season
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That's what a low approval rating looks like
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Dante's revised Divine Comedy: Purgatory - now featuring circles for Las Vegas, Dubai and UK National Rail when the weather cools.
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