Oliver Jeffers’ secrets on how to draw a little penguin have now been disclosed in this fantastic tutorial with the Guardian!  Follow Oliver’s ingenious step-by-step guide, then email your own effort to childrens.books@guardian.co.uk. The best entries will appear in a penguin gallery on the Guardian site. We all want to ‘borrow a penguin’ now… and [...]

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The Cat at a special storytime session at Chorleywood Bookshop. And the roadshow continues… What’s next?

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Jack the Ripper returns in Maureen Johnson’s chilling supernatural tale, ‘The Name of the Star’! We were totally gripped from start to finish by the book, already called “gorgeously written, chilling, atmospheric” by Cassandra Clare. It’s out in October and we can’t wait for you to be as ‘spooked’ as we are… Louisiana native Rory [...]

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The Cat in the Hat is enjoying his fantastic roadshow and on Saturday he’s made his appearance at the Nantwich Bookshop – Cheshire, where he was met by a crowd of over 40 children.   Thing 1 and Thing 2 were with him on this occasion! Apparently they were the result of sibling jealousy (elder sister [...]

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When the rather brilliant ‘Billionaire Boy’ was released last October, we ran a competition to find someone to be treated as a billionaire for the day in London, plus have ice cream with David Walliams himself. That boy turned out to be Henry Ruff, 9 from Retford (near Nottingham). He had a brilliant time and [...]

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