Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Amber Aü is a picture book author and illustrator. She is represented worldwide by Inkling Illustration Agency. Her illustration work includes food characters, as well as maps, buildings and people.
Her awards and selections include World Illustration Awards 2024 – Highly Commended (Professional), World Illustration Awards 2024 – Longlisted Artist, and Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition finalist (2024 and 2025). In 2024, she was runner-up in the Picture Hooks Illustration Competition. In 2023, her work was selected for dPictus – The Unpublished Picture Book Showcase 5.
Her picture book Blue Tomato is scheduled for publication by Little Tiger Press Group on 4 June 2026 (hardback; ISBN 9781838919849).
June 2026’s book club includes titles by Marjoke Henrichs, Philip Ardagh, Ian Eagleton, Hayley Wells, Mary Hoffman, Ros Asquith, Tony Bradman, Bec Manser, Clare Pollard, Patrick Gallagher, Jamie Gregory, Mitch Johnson & Matt Goodfellow.
Here’s our selection of top new titles coming out in Summer 2026. These reading recommendations include picture books, poetry, early and middle-grade fiction; young adult novels and non-fiction.
Children’s book news for December 2025: award longlists and winners, a library card proposal, Book Nooks, bookshop plans, an MPs inquiry, and exhibitions in Chelmsford and Bedford.
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