A bumblebee and cheetah are among the winners of the Animals Are Not Rubbish competition, run by Orion Children’s Books in conjunction with Waterstone’s and the Born Free Foundation.

The group entry winner was the Phil & Jim Art Club at SS Philip and James Primary School in Oxford, who created the Franklin’s...

Legislation that will require all authors who visit schools to be registered on a national database has been branded "Labour's Section 28" by bestselling author Philip Pullman. Section 28, or clause 28, a controversial piece of Conservative legislation, aimed at preventing the promotion of homosexuality in schools, was scrapped in...

I have started my own publishing house, Saadhak Books, which specialises in children's picture books of folk tales retold from the Indian subcontinent. I am a London-born British Indian and I grew up listening to many of these tales from my grandparents. This inspired me to make the narrator of my folk tales an old Indian grandmother called '...

Publication of Tender Morsels in this country is leading to renewed calls for a clearer system to let parents know about the nature of the books that their children are reading, reports the Observer. But children's writers such as Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen remain adamant that age-ranging is not the answer.

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