Written for the adults doing the buying, and franker than a shelf card can be.
The hardest question we get asked is not what a seven-year-old should read. It is what to give a child who has decided they do not like reading, which is usually a child who has been handed four books in a row that were beneath them.
So this strand is blunt. It says which beloved classics have aged badly, which prize-winners are really for adults, and which series is worth buying in full because the fourth one is where it becomes good.
Browse Children & Young AdultThe age we would actually hand it over, not the age on the back cover.
Grief, violence and illness are flagged on our card. Not hidden, flagged.
How long a chapter takes out loud, because that is the number a tired parent needs.