Golidlocks and the most gorgeous book

In an age where you can get book apps which literally sing and dance on the device of your choice, I get a very special thrill when I discover a paper-based book which really embraces its physicality and oozes beauty and charm with an certain, unbeatable huggability. Goldilocks by Allan Ahlberg and Jessica Ahlberg is [...]

On being too busy having fun to do anything else

I really don’t know how it is that I only recently discovered the gorgeous work of Rebecca Cobb. She’s an illustrator with a lovely fresh look, full of colour and a real knack for perfect observation, capturing emotion and feeling with just the tiniest strokes of her pencil or paintbrush. We’ll soon be hearing lots [...]

Jon Klassen shares the books which inspire him

Join me today on the first leg of a world wide tour! Back in April when I attended the London Book Fair there was a lot of buzz about one particular picture book – Jon Klassen’s I Want My Hat Back. Then, later in the year award winning illustrators Viviane Schwarz and Claudia Boldt both [...]

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