CBeebies’ Cerrie Burnell: ‘I want to push diversity in other directions’
The TV presenter who refused to hide her disability is quitting the channel to focus on writing children’s books and acting
I do not like that Dr Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in The Hat are revered as American classics. I found them cheap and creepy
A George Galloway book! Haven’t the kids suffered enough?
There have already been enough crimes against children’s fiction without this braggart joining in
How we made cult cartoon Mr Benn
David McKee: ‘My parents didn’t have a TV. They’d watch it in a furniture shop’
On the prowl: inside the home of the author of The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Judith Kerr’s home hasn’t changed since she featured it in her classic children’s book. Here, she talks about her favourite furniture, her family, and why she’s still working at 93
Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Almost Entirely Unplanned Adventure by AL Kennedy review – surreal and funny
In her first book for children, AL Kennedy conjures up a vividly imagined world with delightful prose
Gemma Cairney: ‘I was a naughty teen – I got told not to talk back’
The radio DJ and author on her life lessons for young and old – plus raving in Margate
Queer children’s books have a long history that’s only now being told
For youngsters realising they don’t fit expected gender roles, books from Winnie-the-Pooh to His Dark Materials have long provided overt and covert help
The Everywhere Bear by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb review – a tender tale
The bond between schoolchildren and their teachers is lovingly explored in this story of a boy who loses the class bear
The Ladybird phenomenon: the publishing craze that’s still flying
The Books for Grown Ups series is worth nearly £30m – so it’s no wonder that retro books for ‘kids’ have spread to other publishers. Now, serious subjects are getting the toilet-book treatment, too
John Boyne: ‘The church has become a spent force’
The author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on the explosion in YA fiction, the abandonment of the Catholic church and why he couldn’t live anywhere other than Dublin
‘People wanted to meet me and the donkey’: my role in a bestselling children’s book
Susanne Schäfer-Limmer recalls finding a donkey on Rhodes, and how her father turned the story into a simple tale
Dick Bruna obituary
Creator of Miffy, the little rabbit who became a star of children’s literature
Miffy creator Dick Bruna has died aged 89
The Dutch artist and illustrator, whose much-loved stories about a cartoon rabbit sold more than 80m books, has died aged 89
All-white Carnegie medal longlist provokes anger from children’s authors
Philip Pullman, Alex Wheatle and Alan Gibbons among authors speaking out against ‘appalling’ exclusion of acclaimed books by leading BAME writers