Shimmy shaking their way onto the dancefloor, the skilled dancers at the sparkling launch of fashion model Agatha Relota's book, 'Carla and Leo's World of Dance', certainly brought the pages to multi-coloured life. Having been a dancer before a

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

pubished. “I had a good idea, but the book was very boring,” says Judith, so it never saw the light of day. Thankfully, her third picture book Mog was an entirely different matter.There will be a host of anniversary events for Mog around the country and a

desk – propelling pencil, mechanical compass, three-sided drafter’s ruler – shows that he’s no ordinary boy. The book’s narrator, an everyman type who sits next to Marshall, is irked by such oddities. But Marshall? “He’s happy in his own skin and just