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Best reads for children this year

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GONE are the days when parents would read a handful of classics to their children at bedtime, with Beatrix Potter, Dr Seuss, and Roald Dahl on constant rotation. The reading list is likely to be a little more diverse nowadays.

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Thanks to the “Greta effect”, there is a boom in children’s environmental books, as well as emotional intelligence ones. An inordinate number of books out this year are on kindness — a far cry from the old fashioned nursery rhymes in which people chopped off fingers with a carving knife. There is increasing attention on topics such as friendship, anxiety, finding your inner strength, believing in oneself — and even getting over insomnia with mindfulness.

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Here are some of the best books to read your children this year.

— The Independent

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