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The Queen and the wonders of Winnie the Pooh
By Fiona McKim on 31/05/2012 15:02:52
The Junior Design Award winning story was a childhood favourite of Her Majesty
Here at Junior, we pride ourselves on having excellent taste, never more so than when selecting the winners of our illustrious Junior Design Awards. So it is heartening to hear that our choice of victor for Best Classic Book 2012, Winnie The Pooh
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Orla Kiely: The Queen of Pattern
By Catherine O'Dolan on 29/05/2012 19:16:15
The Irish designertakes inspiration from the colours of her childhood to create iconic designs as she branches out into picture books
Orla’s first foray into the world of children’s picture books. And as you can imagine, it makes for a very stylish affair indeed. The first two books, Numbers and Colours, were published by Egmont last year; two more, Shapes and Creatures, will follow
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Five Jubilee Picture Books
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 28/05/2012 10:22:45
From the factual to the fanciful, these queenly picture books will help get children in the Jubilee mood
The Queen’s Knickers by Nicholas Allan (Red Fox, £5.99)Snicker you may, but the truth is our demure and dignified figurehead has got to wear something underneath those two-piece suits. First published in 1988 and now with a brand new Jubilee cover
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Highly Commended Picture Book Of The Year 2012: Colours by Orla Kiely
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/05/2012 13:09:45
The Queen of Pattern, designer Orla Kiely, has turned her artistic eye to a sumptuous series of first picturebooks for babies and toddlers
Whoever said that baby books need to be in bright primary colours obviously has never come across the gentler design aesthetics of Orla Kiely. The strong graphic design of this uber-tasteful tome features Kiely’s instantly recognised signature style
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Fairytales with a twist
By Kimberley Chen on 03/04/2012 22:01:53
These picture books have magically reinvented the traditional fairytales…
odd biro moustache. Vibrant images are accompanied by energetic lettering, which tumbles, quivers, grows and shrinks… And magic aside, the book teaches children to treat their books respectfully – no doodling on the queen and creasing the legs of a
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The Best Books Of 2011 For Babies And Toddlers
By Junior on 06/12/2011 10:05:59
Our Editor's pick of the most brilliant new books for babies and toddlers
Colours by Orla Kiely (Egmont, £9.99)It is hardly surprising that the queen of gorgeous graphics, Orla Kiely has come up with a colours and objects baby book that is as sophisticated as it is simple. It’s not just reds and blues – tasteful greys
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Shortlisted Picture Book Of The Year 2012: Sir Scallywag And The Golden Underpants
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/05/2012 13:44:01
Witty wordsmith Giles Andreae pens a rip-roaring tale of a golden-underpanted King Colin
Having already penned two hugely successful book that centre around a fascination for undergarments – the hilarious Pants and More Pants – author Giles Andreae clearly has a well established happy association with underpants. Forget The Queen
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The Top 100 Children's Books
By Junior's discerning readers on 20/04/2010 14:20:18
So here they are! The best books for children of all time, voted by you.
1 The Very Hungry Caterpillarby Eric Carle (Puffin, £5.99)Not many children’s books achieve worldwide sales that would humble a U2 album, but Eric Carle’s classic picture book about a caterpillar munching his way to becoming a
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