Children’s Literature News November 2025
Children’s book news for November 2025: prizes from the Carnegies to the Children’s Booker, new reading campaigns, curriculum changes and bestselling titles for young readers across the UK.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Emma Farrarons is a French illustrator and designer based in the UK. She studied illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art and textile design at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris.
She is best known as the creator of The Mindfulness Colouring Book (2015), a pocket-sized colouring book for adults that became a bestseller and has been translated into multiple languages. Farrarons has also illustrated children’s books and worked on design projects across publishing and textiles.
The Mindfulness Colouring Book was first published by Boxtree in 2015.
Children’s book news for November 2025: prizes from the Carnegies to the Children’s Booker, new reading campaigns, curriculum changes and bestselling titles for young readers across the UK.
Children’s book news for September 2025: Prizes, lists, roles, and dates crowd the calendar, with UKLA longlists, Wainwright and Klaus Flugge results, WBD 2026 titles, new roles, a City Lit exhibition, and a new charity drive.
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