Children’s Corner

Welcome to The Reading Room’s Children’s Corner. Here you will find a selection of children’s books plus book reviews from some of our young reviewers!

To learn more about the books we’ve shared below, click on them and you’ll be taken to our shop on Bookshop.org.

Picture Books

I'm Not Cute, I'm Dangerous by Bruna De Luca

Nabil Steals a Penguin by Nishani Reed

Timid by Harry Woodgate

Arlo by Catherine Rayner

Don't Ask the Dragon by Leon Sissay

One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma by Alan Windram

Speak Up by Nathan Bryan

Be You by Karl Newson

Have you Seen Mikki Olsen? by Alex MacDonald

Rainbowsaurus by Steve Antony

Wake Up, Trucks! by Jodie Parachini & Teresa Bellōn

Children’s Fiction

Alex Neptune by David Owen

Alice Eclair Spy Extraordinaire by Sarah Todd Taylor

Leonora Bolt by Lucy Brant

Loki by Louie Stowell

Murder at the Museum by Alasdair Beckett-King

Onyeka by Tola Okogwu

The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant

Once Upon a Legend by Ben Miller

Children’s Non-Fiction

Britannica's Word of the Day

Lonely Planet Ocean Animal Atlas

My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Things

Scotland: The People, The Places, The Stories by Chat Strathie

Strong, Brave, True by Mairi Kidd

Welcome to our Table by Laura Much

You and Your Amazing Brain by Clive Gifford

Children’s Book Reviews