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Animal magic: children’s books for Christmas

J.K. Rowling, Tomi Ungerer, Michael Morpurgo, Shirley Hughes and Michael Rosen all feature this year, along with many others

The inimitable Shirley Hughes is still in cracking form at 93 with Dogger’s Christmas (Bodley Head).
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