, Nicholas Allan’s humorous tale rifles through Her Majesty’s knicker drawer (ahem) and turns up a kaleidoscope of fetching undergarments. There are confetti-patterned pants for Royal Weddings, floral ones for garden parties, Union Jack ones for foreign

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

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

enthusiasm to get his point across. You don’t have to go very far these days to see 
Ryan’s work, as it adorns everything from book jackets and greetings cards to cushion covers and egg cups. Yet 
despite them being so ubiquitous, it’s impossible to tire

Were you nervous about illustrating a book by Lauren Child, when her fans might expect her to illustrate? Yes, that did cross my mind, as I am not at all stylistically like her, and I feared some might say “What a letdown. What a bad attempt at a

 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

perhaps stem from his sophisticated background as a painter and illustrator for The New Yorker, the New York City Ballet and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. In the first book we’re introduced to a busy little pig who loves to get dressed (and try