Floris Books Christmas Gift Guide 2026

There’s a chill settling in, twinkling lights are popping up around town and the smell of festive spices is in the air… It’s that time of year again – The Floris Books Christmas Gift Guide is here! If you need some gifting inspiration for the young people in your life, we’re here to help. From a pile of fresh new snowy books to cosy classics that have been loved through several Christmases, we’ve got something for all the wee ones on your list. Books make the best presents!

Please order by Saturday 12th December for guaranteed UK delivery in time for Christmas!

Celebrate the joys of winter – building snowmen, ice-skating, throwing snowballs and decorating the Christmas tree with Winter, a classic wordless board book from Gerda Muller.

Follow Norbert’s journey through the icy forest to bring each of his animal friends a delicious gift in Daniela Drescher’s Norbert the Winter Gnome.

Pip the Gnome and the Christmas Tree will help introduce young children to the joy of preparing for Christmas with soft and colourful illustrations from Admar Kwant.

Illustration from Norbert the Winter Gnome

Bramble, the littlest rabbit asks What Comes After the Snow? in Chiaki and Ko Okada’s adorable picture book celebrating curiosity and the changing of the seasons.

Experience the magic of Snowfall, playful snowflakes dance joyfully through the night sky in Park Sun-jung’s stunning wordless debut picture book.

Rediscover The Snow Queen in Bette Westera’s retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, brought to life by illustrations from Aida de Jong.

Poppy realises that the snowflakes in her garden are really snow children in this adorable mini edition of Sibylle von Olfers’ classic The Story of the Snow Children.

A special snow globe brings Lucy and Noah a magical Christmas Eve surprise in The Christmas Snow Globe by Sibylle Delacroix.

Illustration from What Comes After the Snow?

Slow down and enjoy hours of joy, creativity and mindfulness as you colour in scenes, patterns and quotations from Beskow’s timeless stories in The World of Elsa Beskow: A Vintage Colouring Book.

Follow along on Ollie’s Ski Trip as he sets off on an adventure to the palace of King Winter.

Celebrate Swedish traditions with Peter, Lotta and their aunts and uncle in Peter and Lotta’s Christmas.

Keep track of family schedules and holidays with the 2027 Elsa Beskow Calendar, featuring charming seasonal images from favourite Beskow books.

Illustration from Peter and Lotta’s Christmas

Adventurous elf Otto embarks on an amazing journey in Otto and the Secret Light of Christmas from mother-and-daughter team Pirkko-Liisa and Nora Surojegin.

Share a chapter a day of Ulf Stark’s The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits to count down to Christmas.

Daniela Drescher brings fairy tale favourites from the Brothers Grimm to life in An Illustrated Treasury of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

Travel to the snowy forests of Finland to meet the animals of the north in Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin’s charming An Illustrated Collection of Nordic Animal Tales.

Illustration from Otto and the Secret Light of Christmas

Spend an exciting day with a little boy and a polar bear in Park Jihee’s joyful wordless picture book The Polar Bear Day.

Follow a young child’s independent discovery of the natural world in The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky by Kim Jihyun.

The Dog Walk quickly becomes extraordinary as boy and dog journey through incredible, intricate and hilarious scenes in this wordless picture book from Sven Nordqvist.

Whose Footprints Are These? Follow the clues to discover the fun that a child and dog have had in the snow in this charming book from Gerda Muller.

Illustration from The Polar Bear Day

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