If ever you’re wondering what would make a good book present, or even what books to buy your own kids, then have a look at Exclusive Books’ Dewey’s Big Book Guide for Kids, available in stores.
The guide features the best of the best when it comes to great reads for toddlers until teens.
Here are the titles that have been handpicked for the guide (it’s handy to have the hard copy of the guide though).
Titles for 0-3 years
Baby Touch: Moo-Moo by Ladybird
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
How Do Dinosaurs Series – Favourite Stories by Jane Yolen
Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
Nuwe Kinderverseboek by Riana Scheepers
Aandstories vir Kleuters by Pieter W. Grobbelaar
Picture Books for 3 – 6 years
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Ouma Emma Mamma by Lorenz Pauli and Carmen Hansen-Kruger
Gruffalo Sound Book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
It’s a Book by Lane Smith
Hot Hippo by Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway
Lunchtime by Rebecca Cobb
Guess How Much I love You by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Chris van Wyk and Paddy Bouma – the official children’s picture book edition of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom.
Titles for 6-9 years
The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! and The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
How To Train Your Dragon Series – Favourite Stories by Cressida Cowell
Where’s Wally? By Martin Handford, Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis
Mr Gum Eight Copy Slipcase by Andy Stanton
My Boetie dink hy’s Batman en ander Rympies by Jaco Jacobs and Chris Venter
Jakkals en Wolf by Pieter W. Grobbelaar and Sean Verster
Titles for 9-12 years
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series – The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chronicles Of Narnia – The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, Charlotte’s Web by Elwyn Brooks White, The Skulduggery Pleasant Series by Derek Landy. The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling, The Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz and The Dork Diaries Series including Dear Dork by Rachel Renée Russell.
Titles for 12- 15 years
The Spud Series by John van de Ruit
The Young Samurai Series – The Way of The Warrior by Chris Bradford
Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The Chaos Walking Series – The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Suurlemoen by Jaco Jacobs
Permanente Ink by Carina Diedericks -Hugo
Titles for 16 + Teens
The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
The Mortal Instruments Series – City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Die Ongelooflike Avonture van Hanna Hoekom by Marita van der Vyver
Black Dog (Kate Greenaway Medal – 2013) by Levi Pinfold
Maggot Moon (Costa Children’s Award – 2013; Carnegie Medal – 2013) by Sally Gardner
Lien se Lankstaanskoene by Derick van der Walt
Taken at the recent Dewey launch:
Among my favourite favourites…
