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
Stefania Aldana Trujillo is an illustrator and children’s author.
She has a BFA in Illustration with Honours from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Arts.
Her work was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards (2023) and received a Highly Commended award in the Macmillan Prize (2023).
Her picture book The Hunt for the Fog Town Moose was published by Kumusha Books (HarperCollins Publishers) on 11 September 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.
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