of opportunity to hone your humour and sharpen those slapstick skills with Comic Relief  – don a red nose for instant laughs and a good cause.Read more about Emma Bridgewater's witty collection for Red Nose Day, the best joke books for children, and why Stella Mc

-witted and almost invincible.* His sidekick Snowy is a constant companion (since the ageless Tintin never has any love interest) and with his fondness for whisky he makes a great comic contrast to goody-goody Tintin.  * The baddies are just so bad - and very un

’re not “proper reading”? I think it’s the fact that my cartoons are in book form that is elevating them from comic books to something that feels a little bit more like literature, but I don’t think anyone really takes these books seriously, including myself

from the “whirr, whirr” of the sewing machine, a chirpy “pom pom pom de pom” as Archie takes a stroll, and a “ring, ring” as the phone tinkles with orders. “I’ve always been a fan of those kinds of words that have a comic-book feel,” she says. “Plus

SHRINKING DOWN TO a miniscule scale is something of a stock-in-trade in fantasy fiction from The Borrowers and Gulliver’s Travels to Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, leading – as it does – to comic scenarios of teeny folk in a giant world, and repurposing

popular books including Each Peach Pear Plum (I spy Tom Thumb) and The Jolly Postman, both of which were illustrated by his late wife, Janet. In this instance, the initial inspiration was not actually literary, but musical. “It’s based on Bach’s Goldberg

to be available when making your booking. Reserve a bassinet (and bulkhead seats) if you have a baby and make sure you confirm before boarding, and book children’s meals to avoid the wrath of a toddler who spies a fellow tiny traveller tucking into mini Pringles

that doesnt' factor that his mother's idea of fun is a book club, and his dad believes that a kid should be out playing sports and other exercises.Such is the oft' thwarted intentions of Greg, the classic middle child who is sandwiched between his bullying

to buy a girl a red coat, so even if I didn’t have a girlfriend at the time, I’d buy someone a red coat. That’s why Martine McCutcheon wears a big red coat in the movie.”Curtis is a prodigious talent. As well as being a founder of Comic Relief and Red