Gaining mastery over a hand-held console control can be tricky for young children (and for some adults too). The beauty of the XBox 360 Kinect is that all you need is your hand or voice to activate the sensor and you’re away. Lurking inside the neat, sleek black Kinect unit is so...

Too-wit too-woo, who could resist this gorgeous crew of cute creatures? What's more, they will encourage your child's artistic talents as they come flat-packed, so your child can get to work with glue and scissors to bring them to life. Made from recycled paper using eco inks, th...

Press Here is full of playful surprises, as colourful spots multiply, change colour, swirl and twirl across the pages in a balletic folk dance of intricate ins and outs. For the child, the ultimate beauty is that he’s in charge: by acting on the narrator’s instructions, it’s him ...

What was the inspiration for your award-winning book Press Here?Wow, it is so difficult to answer this question! I always try to create innovative books and Press Here is maybe the all-encompassing result of my previous projects: open, participative and interactive books for babi...

Children’s Product for her cushion designs – hardly a surprise, perhaps, after winning a First Class Honours degree from London's University of Arts. Her distinctive designs are a blend of inspiration from an early childhood spent in Asia, favourite toys

Kiely bags will retail at £4, with fifty pence from each sale divided equally between the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent, Tesco Charity of the Year 2010 and Orla’s personal charity, the Royal College of Art, which funds bursaries

to send me off with a packed lunch on the train. There was always fresh fruit. Do you have any cooking heroes? Pellegrino Artusi, the author of a famous Italian cookbook called La scienza In Cucina E L'arte Di Mangiare Bene (The Science of Cooking

Paris – city of love, fashion, art and culture – has something for everyone and a wide range of accommodation to match. There's glamour and glitz at the city's most famous hotels – Le Meurice, the Ritz, Le Crillon, Georges V – if you really want

The elegant Riverside Room on the 10th floor of prestigious pubishers Penguin – with a stunning view of the Thames and the South Bank's London Eye – was the venue for a gathering of the glitterati of children's picture book art to kickstart the year

on his fatherly duties, but then he probably has his hands full babysitting twins, Vivienne and Knox).Lovely Shiloh was papped while out on a Christmas shopping spree with mother, Angelina Jolie and siblings Maddox, Pax, and Zahara on a visit to Lee's Art