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From heartwarming winter tales to festive audiobooks, these are the titles for little ones to read this December ...

The fearsome Redlaw and the Boy was created by John Leech for The Haunted Man While Charles Dickens is often remembered for his love of yuletide festivities, the illustrations he commissioned for his ...

Two illustrations from J K Rowling's forthcoming children's book The Christmas Pig (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) have been revealed. Jim Field's black and white spreads, featuring the hero ...

From the column: "It was the pairing of Leech’s pictures with Dickens’ passages that made this book an overnight success, with the entire first printing of 6,000 copies sold in just one week." ...

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While Charles Dickens is often remembered for his love of yuletide festivities, the illustrations he commissioned for his Christmas stories may make you question such an opinion. With titles such as ...