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2013Publication: A hilarious colouring book promoting healthy eating for kids, we present Colour me Healthy!
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2014Illustration: An interview with illustrator and long-term Jacqueline Wilson collaborator, Nick Sharratt
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2016Between creation and destruction: the art of storytelling by Oliver Jeffers
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2015The story of Tintin, as told in a new exhibition at Somerset House
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2015Sunshine takes on mammoth task of branding Roald Dahl
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2013Illustration: Holly Mills illustrates Roald Dahl's tales with perfect menace
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2015Gather round children, it's your weekly dose of weirdness. The Weekender!
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2011Interesni Kazki
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2009The Fantastic Mr Fox
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2013Oliver Jeffers' limited-edition monograph is an object of beauty
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2012Web of Stories: Quentin Blake
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2023How “indulging in absurd thoughts” fuels Francesca Colombara’s wacky work
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2025Midwife, Wha?! is the heartwarming picture book that’s letting kids in on life’s early beginnings
Poster
2013Illustration: Lovely and very little-known Maurice Sendak posters!
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20102010 Review: Maisie Broadhead
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2015We meet 12-year-old comics artist Orson to discuss his new book
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2013Publication: Clever new children's book reveals its secrets under torchlight
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2013Heartbreaking, rare Maurice Sendak interview animated by Christoph Niemann
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2012Owen Davey's illustrated characters appeal to kids and adults alike
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2014Peek into the playful sketchbooks of illustrator Julianna Brion
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2020The everlasting charm of illustrator Dick Bruna’s Miffy
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2024Jackanory time: Hannah Gibson’s book introduces children to cockney rhyming slang
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2008Nick Turpin's Adventure
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2022Little Black Sambo poster 1935
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2014Miscellaneous: An incredible archive of the beautiful, much-loved Ladybird Books
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2026Every meal is a celebration in Maggie Cowles’ first picture book, Table!
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2021Matteo Loglio on breaking down the complex world of AI into child-friendly illustration and art
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2018Marion Deuchars on how to make a great picture book
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2017The makings of Roald Dahl’s My Golden Ticket, a new book revisiting Wonka’s fantastical world
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2018"Oh, Mother, may I go out to swim?" - Frank A. Nankivell 1906. LCCN2011645809
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2009The Letter People
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2020French illustrator Chloé Bertron updates us on her “kinky, playful, unsafe and cryptic” books and illustrations
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2013Bookshelf: Pop-up books and a seriously cute dog in the fun-filled bookshelf of Jen Stark
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2016Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - an exclusive interview with Duck, Red Guy and Yellow Guy
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2016Rob Hunter illustrates Robert Louis Stevenson poem for The Land of Nod
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2026Pack your bags! A new picture book from Aysha Tengiz takes you on a tour around the world
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2024Jessica Hische on opening a brick and mortar store, making a children’s book and all things letters
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2014Graphic Design: Multistorey design a charmingly non-cheesy educational book for kids
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2023The Moomin magician: celebrating Tove Jansson’s boundless creativity
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2007Chris Haughton
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2008Where on The Earth Is Waldo
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2010Frank Asch: Gia and the One Hundred Dollars Worth of Bubblegum
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2011Isabel Greenberg
Typeface
2024Dinamo premieres its new serif typeface with a children’s book for adults
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2009Andrea Crews
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2019María Ramos illustrates bad bats, sleepy eggs and a boy made out of bubble gum
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2008Eric Carle
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2021Hop to it
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2015Enid Blyton couldn't have written a better one; it's time for the Weekender!!
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2026“It’s done when you can touch it”: Lizzy Stewart on the hundreds of drawings and writing-on-a-whim that goes into illustrated novels
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2016Illustrator Joe Gamble creates charming book for football-crazed kids
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2013Illustration: Isabel Greenberg weaves her magic in fantastical follow-up
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2011Yellow Woodpecker Farm v5.0
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2018Toys and fairytales: Toma Vagner's charming, imaginative illustrations
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2019“Like a little factory making picture books”: The wondrous work of Marie Neurath
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2013Maurice Sendak’s last work, My Brother’s Book – a beautiful, poignant elegy to love and loss
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2020Stories That Never Stand Still celebrates the ADHD brain, with exclusively ADHD illustrators
Typeface
2016Monotype designs bespoke handwriting typeface for Quentin Blake
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2016Roald Dahl's Gobblefunk interpreted by five designers
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