Children’s books

Anything and everything in Children’s books from across our archives.

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14 Apr 2016

Past event

Promo image for Bernard Caleo on How Moomins Help Us to Appreciate Sadness

You Don't Know Me

Bernard Caleo on How Moomins Help Us to Appreciate Sadness / Illustration

With Bernard Caleo

11 May 2015

Past event

Promo image for David Walliams: The New Roald Dahl: Melbourne

Ten Days in May

David Walliams: The New Roald Dahl: Melbourne / Children’s books

With David Walliams and Meshel Laurie

11 Sep 2014

News

Promo image for Working with Words: Rebecca Lim

Working with Words: Rebecca Lim / Creativity

By Jo Case

15 Mar 2012

Past event

Promo image for The Many Lives of Etgar Keret

The Many Lives of Etgar Keret / Books, reading & writing

With Etgar Keret

1 Apr 2011

Countdown to the Children’s Book Festival / Children’s books

By Alex Landragin

All week we’ve run a series of articles on kids' and young adult books to coincide with the inaugural Children’s Book Festival this Sunday from 10am to 4pm.

Today we finish the series by following up on a story we ran last week, when the UK’s education secretary Michael Gove suggested school kids should be reading 50 books a year. The Guardian reports that…

17 Mar 2011

News

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Reading on Pregnancy & Parenting / Children’s books

By Alex Landragin

28 Feb 2011

Nature Versus Nurture: The Debate Rages On / Children’s books

By Alex Landragin

It seems the world of ideas is in the throes of one of its periodic visitations on the subject of talent, success and parenting. This latest wave is all about tough love. Just in the last few weeks, the term ‘tiger mothering’ has entered the popular lexicon in a quite spectacular way following the publication of a memoir of mothering by Chinese-American author Amy…

21 Jul 2017

Past event

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Judy Horacek / Graphic novels & comics

With Judy Horacek and Serpil Senelmis

22 Mar 2015

Past event

Promo image for Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Gabrielle Wang

Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Gabrielle Wang / Children’s books

With Gabrielle Wang

12 Jul 2013

News

Promo image for Friday High Five: Mr Darcy's Statue and the T-Shirt Economy

Friday High Five: Mr Darcy’s Statue and the T-Shirt Economy / Children’s books

By Jo Case

20 Mar 2014

Past event

Promo image for Sally Rippin on Rescuing Reluctant Readers

Lunchbox / Soapbox

Sally Rippin on Rescuing Reluctant Readers / Children’s books

With Sally Rippin

23 Mar 2014

Past event

Promo image for Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Jackie French: Ten reasons not to eat a book

Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Jackie French: Ten reasons not to eat a book / Children’s books

With Jackie French

25 Nov 2011

Hello Dolly / Children’s books

By Alex Landragin

The Dolly Parton show is in town and so it’s a good occasion to pay tribute to the veteran country singer’s work to promote literacy among poor kids. Since 1996, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library USA has mailed every child under five in participating counties a book every month until their fifth birthday.

Should YouTube have a literature channel? It’s a question raised by the…

7 Apr 2016

Past event