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As one of South London's best-loved illustrators enters his 90th year, Rebecca Magill looks back on the long career of Quentin Blake with some fun...

With four projects on the go, life is busy for children’s author and illustrator Lisa Stickley, writes Rebecca Magill. From a grumpy bee called...

A Hither Green resident has drawn on her love of her favourite childhood story to write her debut book for children.   The Secret Detectives by...

Recently we interviewed author Ayisha Malik for the South London Press about her new book Seven Sisters. Read the article HERE or find the tran...

We recently had a wonderful chat with author Ayisha Malik about her new book Seven Sisters. A picture book with an empowering message, it is a mus...

Honor Oak Park resident Gareth P Jones is celebrating as he launches his new children’s book, Solve Your Own Mystery: The Monster Maker. Set i...

Here's a interview I recorded with author Gareth P Jones about his new book Solve Your Own Mystery: The Monster Maker. Thanks Gareth, it was great...

Welcome to our next instalment of the Rhymes For Little Minds Instasquare Interview. Five fun quick-fire questions, all designed to fit in five I...

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd. Published 1947. A deceptively simple ‘go-to-sleep’ tale, in which a bunny goes about ...

Many of our best-loved fairy tales have much darker origins than we realise. The way we see characters like Snow White and Cinderella comes from a Disney-lens from the classic films of the early part of the 20th Century. In fact, these stories are much older. 

Five fun quick questions, each designed to fit in five Instasquares!Next up – Jarvis. The author of Alan’s Big Scary Teeth, Lazy Dave and Mrs ...

I have a new addiction...In my recent interview with Ingela P Arrhenius, she discussed that the one children’s book she would love to have had t...