Tyger Tale

In search of the perfect ending ‘The end came too quickly,’ Joan Aiken writes in the afterword to her final novel.

In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century.

As we enter a new golden age for children’s literature, opportunities to share modern classics with the widest possible audience become fewer and further between.

Television producer and writer Jake Hayes looks back at his attempts to get more children’s books on the telly and asks why we don’t see more coverage on our screens.

Jake Hayes discusses the books that helped inspire our greatest children’s authors to create their own modern masterpieces.

Roald Dahl’s best book?

Nine years in the writing and SF Said is finally ready to release his Tyger into the world.

When legendary Puffin books editor, Kaye Webb stood down from her role in 1979 it was partly because she could see a new wind was blowing through the world of children’s publishing.

Babar is recognised all over the world, an adorable elephant character as ubiquitous as Miffy or the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

“The dictionary definitions – tale, fable, legend – are all inadequate when I think of my little German Märchenbuch (Fairy tale book) and what it held for me.