Children’s Literature News December 2025
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.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Nabila Adani is a children’s book author and illustrator. She studied industrial product design at Bandung Institute of Technology and completed her degree in 2013. She then worked as a product designer in Japan and Indonesia, before moving to the United States to study children’s book illustration.
Her illustration credits include Be a Bridge by Irene Latham and Charles Waters and Sunny and the Birds by Wendy Meddour, as well as Not Now, Noor! by Farhana Islam. She illustrated Ibraheem’s Perfect Eid by Farhana Islam, published by Puffin on 27 February 2025.
Adani wrote and illustrated the picture book Aisha’s Colours, published by Walker Books on 4 July 2024.
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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