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Happy Birthday Mog
By Catherine O'Dolan on 30/04/2010 15:20:51
Well-loved author Judith Kerr celebrates Mog's 40th birthday
With the wonderful wealth of children's picture books that's available, it might be considered unfair for us to have particular favourites, but we can't help but have a soft spot for Mog, the scraggy and rather grumpy cat created by author
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Top Of The Rhymes
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 08/10/2009 15:55:20
A new survey reveals the nation’s favourite nursery rhymes
rhymes for 2009? 1. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 2. Incey Wincey Spider 3. Round and Round the Garden 4. Baa Baa Black Sheep 5. The Grand Old Duke of York 6. If You’re Happy and You Know It 7. Humpty Dumpty 8. This Little Piggy 9
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Junior Ocado book offer
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 07/02/2011 18:29:34
Get a beautiful nursery rhyme book free with our March issue at Ocado
of this gorgeous book (worth £12.99), so it's happy reading for both you and your child. Perfect!
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Puffin Books celebrate 70 fabulous years of brilliant picture books
By Catherine O'Dolan on 28/04/2010 16:19:13
A behind-the-scenes peek at the Puffin Picture Book Boutique
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
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Meet the oddly unflappable Marshall Armstrong
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 17/06/2011 16:10:52
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
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Too Many Girls (surely not!)
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 17/06/2011 15:39:30
Jonty Lees battle-of-the-sexes tale was highly-commended in our category for Most Promising New Talent
books, with a delightfully playful ode about the trials and tribulations of being Man About The House. Written in the most jaunty of rhymes, our stubbly hero, always clad in boyish blue, is in revolt against the tyranny of twirlers and hatches a
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Batty: Hang out with a topsy-turvy chappy
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 17/06/2011 15:29:26
-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em attitude, he flits off to the other enclosures in search of greener grass. Author and illustrator Sarah Dyer has a soft spot for unconventional characters. Her previous books, such as Clementine And Mungo and Monster Day At Work, feature quirky, pointy
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The Hungry Caterpillar's Secret
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/04/2010 12:00:03
Junior interviews Eric Carle, the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Bad Tempered Lady Bug and The Very Quiet Cricket
I see the printed book, I am happy again!When did you decide to start writing and illustrating books?My career began as a graphic designer. Later I was an art director for an advertising agency. In the mid 1960’s Bill Martin Jr saw an ad of a red
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Rebecca Elliott on creating Zoo Girl
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 19:18:08
Highly Commended in our Junior Design Awards category Picture Book Of The Year, author and illustrator Rebecca Elliott gives us the back story to her latest book, Zoo Girl
Where did you get the idea for Zoo Girl? The rough idea for Zoo Girl had been buzzing around my head for years, but as with all my book ideas, at some point I have to grab that vague, floaty idea, pin it down and try to make sense of it and mould
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The story behind Bottom’s Up!
By Catherine O'Dolan on 10/03/2009 12:17:26
A Junior interview with author Jeanne Willis and illustrator Adam Stower on their brilliant picturebook collaboration
this book because he had a perfect cheek – they’re not easy to draw, you know. A Junior interview with illustrator Adam StowerAS: Good news about Bottom's Up being featured in Junior magazine! I’m happy to answer your questions. This is my first Q&A session
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