My Dad Can by Stephen Lightbown, illustrated by Claire Sahara Lemp, Quarto, £7.99Iris’s dad can turn into dinosaurs, unicorns, anything she imagines – though some people see Dad’s wheelchair and believe he... Read more »
Spread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of its kind anywhere in the world:... Read more »
The Wonder by Tom Percival, Simon & Schuster, £12.99Daniel’s wet grey day seems like it will never get better – until he hears music and everything changes. A subtly beautiful picture book... Read more »
The Good Deed Dogs by Emma Chichester Clark, Walker, £12.99Three very good dogs’ attempts to help others keep backfiring with chaotic consequences – until they pull off a successful kitten rescue in... Read more »
The children’s publisher Puffin is hurriedly contacting UK schools and local authorities after it discovered that a website address included in a popular children’s book series had been hijacked by a pornography... Read more »
Author Allan Ahlberg, who delighted generations of children with colourful characters and nimble rhymes, has died aged 87. Working with his wife Janet, an award-winning illustrator, Ahlberg produced a host of bestselling... Read more »
Burglar Bill ‘I worked with kids who struggled – this one boy would listen with rapture’ Thirty years ago I was a healthcare assistant working for CAMHS in a major city. It... Read more »
Cloud Boy by Greg Stobbs, Oxford, £7.99Sights, sounds, smells – the world around Bobby is just too enticing, and he’s always floating off into the clouds. How can his friends keep his... Read more »
This story begins in a fever. It was the spring of 2021 and I’d contracted my first bout of Covid. Confined to bed, I turned to the pile of books that had... Read more »