How do you find choosing children's books, can you help?!

Great NanKate.....I used to live near Oxford and every year we would get invites to their sales at the Witney offices...a great way to bag bargains for our Preschool....happy days.

Yes Red House are still going strong HildaW .

In 2007 my son was Runner Up for the Older Children's books. We went to the Award Ceremony and it was wonderful to see so many children who are bookworms.

www.redhousechildrensbookaward.co.uk/

Sounds like a good idea - I have noticed that children's books in the US are often a bit too keen to include a very worthy moral theme. Although this is no bad thing in itself, I just find that American books are less than subtle about such things as making friends, bullying and having good manners.
I'm an ex Preschool leader and we had much more success with getting children interested in books and stories if the themes were humorous, anarchic, even just a bit 'naughty'.
Back in those days we always found 'Red House' books had the right choices, not sure whether they are still in business.

I would be quite interested in this, the English book shops here in Brussels are very expensive, our Waterstones was named a few years ago as the most expensive anywhere.
Amazon UK no longer deliver here.
We are a multi-lingual family and I am always on the look out for good books in English for toddler Grandson.
Perhaps not always for gifts, there is a site called XPats.com which you should check out, it caters for the English speaking community here.