Item category 2: Picture books for older readers

Father Christmas awoke from his dream of summer in the sun, and there it was on the calendar, December 24th, Christmas Eve, the start of his longest night's work of the year. This book was awarded The Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal.

When Rose sees a little boy trying to escape from the back of a truck, only to be captured and shoved back in, she decides to follow the truck. At a desolate place out of town she discovers many other children, staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire fence.

Bilbo is the hero of "The Hobbit". His "Last Song" was composed just before he took ship to the West. It mingles the regret of saying farewell to his friends and to Middle-earth with the call of the sea and his yearning to embark on the ultimate voyage to the Undying Lands beyond the sunset.