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Children’s books for Christmas

Juliet Townsend

Tuesday, 11th December 2007

The best presents to give this Christmas

Part of the charm of giving books to children at Christmas is that they are so easy to wrap. After an evening spent wrestling with a variety of soft toys with elongated limbs and tails, a large combine harvester, an assortment of weapons and a pogo stick, it is a relief to settle down to all those nice regular rectangles. Christmas is also the only time that many children get given hardbacks, and the opportunity to enjoy a book as an object, not simply for its contents.

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The spice of danger

David Crane

From the Front Line: Family Letters & Diaries, 1900 to the Falklands & Afghanistan, by Hew Pike

Stars bright and dim

Philip Hensher

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey

How to write a wrong

Allan Massie

‘When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of Hate, Suspicion and Despair, all the Love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge.’

The power of the evasive word

Michael Howard

The Economist Book of Obituaries, by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe

Deadlier than the male

Andrew Taylor

When does a novel stop being a novel and become a crime story? It’s often assumed that there is an unbridgeable gap between them, but that’s not necessarily so.