If keeping your spirits up in the past month has been difficult, the best children’s books may be a present to yourself. I am emerging from under the duvet much as Moses came down from the mountaintop, to say that there is a world in which bullies and liars do not triumph.
A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston (Walker, £12.99, for readers over five) is one of those deceptively simple books about books that can become fey unless it is as magical and passionate as this is. A girl floats on the boat of her imagination, on an evocative typographic sea of words created by Winston. She invites a boy to join her on an adventure, in which extracts from classic fiction become waves, mountains and castles.
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