Children's Books

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Marianne Levy

Our children deserve better than Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

The book will be taught in schools - but please, for the love of literacy, give children something written with them in mind

Culture

Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures is the antidote to forgettable celebrity kids' books

Books

Jacqueline Wilson: 'David Walliams's books are not what I would have wanted as a child'

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Georgina Fuller

My son has been waiting over a year for a filling - his pain makes me feel like a failure

Kuba Shand-Baptiste

The golliwog's history shows Britain's affection for the dolls has never come from a good place

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Article thumbnail: A handout photograph released by The Rucksack Project in London on February 17, 2023 shows author Di Redmond reading from her book 'Rucksack' to displaced Ukrainian children at St Mary's Ukrainian school in London on September 17, 2022. - As refugees flooded over the border with Romania nearly a year ago, one thing immediately struck British-Ukrainian volunteer Anna Shevchenko -- every child was carrying a little rucksack. Travelling back to the UK, writer Shevchenko had the idea of using those rucksacks as a symbol for a trauma-healing programme and within weeks had put together a network of mostly Ukrainian expats determined to help. English children's author Di Redmond immediately went to work on Anna's idea of all the children's memories being held in this one bag. (Photo by Maria Shevchenko / The Rucksack Project / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / The Rucksack Project " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HELEN ROWE (Photo by MARIA SHEVCHENKO/The Rucksack Project/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: A handout photograph released by The Rucksack Project in London on February 17, 2023 shows author Di Redmond reading from her book 'Rucksack' to displaced Ukrainian children at St Mary's Ukrainian school in London on September 17, 2022. - As refugees flooded over the border with Romania nearly a year ago, one thing immediately struck British-Ukrainian volunteer Anna Shevchenko -- every child was carrying a little rucksack. Travelling back to the UK, writer Shevchenko had the idea of using those rucksacks as a symbol for a trauma-healing programme and within weeks had put together a network of mostly Ukrainian expats determined to help. English children's author Di Redmond immediately went to work on Anna's idea of all the children's memories being held in this one bag. (Photo by Maria Shevchenko / The Rucksack Project / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / The Rucksack Project " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HELEN ROWE (Photo by MARIA SHEVCHENKO/The Rucksack Project/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 11, 2010. Nine-year-old Anthony Andrade reads Roald Dahl's 'The Giant Peach' with Kirkland & Ellis's paralegal Travis Lauchman as part of Everybody Wins! at the Marie Reed Community Center. Everybody Wins! is a children's literacy and mentoring nonprofit organization. Its purpose is to build the skills and love of reading while targeting mainly low-income elementary students. The organization brings volunteer mentors into schools for weekly one-on-one reading exercise. (Photo by ASTRID RIECKEN For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 11, 2010. Nine-year-old Anthony Andrade reads Roald Dahl's 'The Giant Peach' with Kirkland & Ellis's paralegal Travis Lauchman as part of Everybody Wins! at the Marie Reed Community Center. Everybody Wins! is a children's literacy and mentoring nonprofit organization. Its purpose is to build the skills and love of reading while targeting mainly low-income elementary students. The organization brings volunteer mentors into schools for weekly one-on-one reading exercise. (Photo by ASTRID RIECKEN For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: JK Rowling in 2012. (Photo: Ian West/PA Wire)
Article thumbnail: JK Rowling in 2012. (Photo: Ian West/PA Wire)