For anyone looking for the perfect present for an eager young reader, The Big Issue has browsed all of the new books released this year and come up with the absolute best children’s books of 2022.
And we’re offering you the chance to win all 15 of these brilliant books. They are:
- There’s a Ghost in this House by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins, £20)
- I DID See a Mammoth! by Alex Willmore (Farshore, £7.99)
- The Woman Who Turned Children into Birds by David Almond, illustrated by Laura Carlin (Walker Studio, £12.99)
- Saving the Butterfly by Helen Cooper, illustrated by Gill Smith (Walker Books, £12.99)
- Loki: a Bad God’s Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell(Walker Books, £7.99)
- The Offline Diaries by Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené, illustrated by Tequitia Andrews & Ruthine Burton (HarperCollins, £12.99)
- Corpse Talk: Ground-Breaking Explorers by Adam and Lisa Murphy (David Fickling Books, £9.99)
- Xanthe & The Ruby Crown by Jasbinder Bilan (Chicken House, £7.99)
- A Fairytale for Everyone edited by Boldizsár M Nagy, illustrated by Lilla Bölecz, translated by Anna Bentley (Farshore, £14.99)
- A Wild Child’s Book of Birds by Dara McAnulty, illustrated by Barry Falls (Pan Macmillan, £14.99)
- The Last Whale by Chris Vick (Zephyr books, £14.99)
- Unleash Your Creative Monster: A Children’s Guide to Writing by Andy Jones, illustrated by Olaf Falafel (Walker Books, £9.99)
- Heartstopper Vol 1 & Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman (Hachette, £10.99, £14.99)
- The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner (Otter-Barry Books, £12.99)
- Children of the Stone City by Beverley Naidoo (HarperCollins, £12.99)