Children's writing

Eric Carle, the US author of best-selling children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91.

He died last Sunday, his family said.

"In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows is now travelling across the night sky," a family statement said.  Read more

When I made the extremely practical decision to abandon my career in publishing to become a writer, I didn't know I wanted to write children's books. I thought I wanted to write for adults.  Read more

Daniel Nayeri, publisher of Odd Dot, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, wrote an entire book on his daily train commute. He wrote another while waiting at a bus stop.

As an award-winning children's poet, Joshua Seigal uses poetry to inspire confidence and ​creativity in schools, so he is an enthusiastic supporter of poetry on the curriculum: ‘I think poetry's hugely important for the development of children's literacy - it gives them freedom to explore a whole toolbox of writing techniques and it's instrumental in exploring identity and self-expression, whic  Read more

A few years ago, I was surprised to open a newspaper and read that the head teacher of a London public school had decided to ban my books from his library. He described the adventures of Alex Rider, which have sold around 20  million- copies worldwide, in terms so derogatory that I have no mind to repeat them. Suffice it to say that the article quite put me off my cornflakes.  Read more