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Author Lauren Child: ‘People send me pictures of their Charlie and Lola tattoos’
17 Oct 2025 08:47 GMT
… Eat A Tomato, was published, and the books’ author, Lauren Child, has finally written a … them.
Child says: “I remember [novelist] Jacqueline Wilson saying, quite rightly, … Every Minute for Christmas by Lauren Child is published by Simon & Schuster, …
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Deirdre McDermott on Walker Books’ picture book legacy and strategy
15 Oct 2025 09:05 GMT
My interview with Walker Books’ picture book publisher Deirdre McDermott takes place in … Grey by Laura Dockrill and Lauren Child (“a book I’m very proud … ’s strategy is to publish each picture book on one of three …
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Salt Path scandal rocks literary festival as author pulls out of event
24 Sep 2025 04:52 GMT
… piece by journalist Chloe Hadjimatheou, published in The Observer on Sunday … Levine. Also featured are bestselling author Ruth Hogan in conversation with … Laureate Lauren Child, known for the Charlie & Lola and Clarice Bean books …
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The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Century
22 Sep 2025 10:05 GMT
… , Clarice Bean, Utterly Me by Lauren Child
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2003 … imagination.” —Cheryl Willis Hudson, author, editor, and publisher (When I Hear Spirituals … the middle-grade graphic novels this clever book resembles—will giggle at …
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Curious questions, a murderous house and football facts by various authors – children’s book reviews –
05 Sep 2025 16:27 GMT
… the Sun which was published in 2021 and sold … copies.
Working alongside author and illustrator Lauren Child and magician Derren Brown … a new graphic novel format for bestselling author Steve Cole’ … shelves bulging with books. But despite books at every turn, …
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Children nervous about going back to school? Read these books
22 Aug 2025 19:41 GMT
… or primary school
Lauren Child’s Charlie and Lola picture book I Am … not dated since it was published in 2003. It is still … teacher Matt Goodfellow’s tearjerker novel in free verse, The Final … and possibilities.
• Read more book reviews and interviews — and see …
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Lauren Child nominated for Carnegie Medal 25 years after first win
11 Mar 2025 17:58 GMT
Lauren Child is shortlisted for the Carnegie … third time, plus two debut author-illustrators Theo Parish and Kate … : Firefly Press, Otter-Barry Books, UCLan Publishing and Lantana.
The Carnegies celebrate …
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Lauren Child in running for repeat Carnegie medal after 25 years
11 Mar 2025 16:10 GMT
… illustrated by Lauren Child. Photograph: undefined/Walker Books“It’s … McDonald, a young adult novel that follows the precarious … and high quality within publishing for children and young … debut Homebody, a graphic novel about being transgender and …
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Lauren Child: ‘My greatest achievement is adopting my daughter’
23 Nov 2024 14:05 GMT
… . I’ve just written a book that comes out of my … wait.
Clarice Bean: Smile by Lauren Child (HarperCollins, £7.99) is out …
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Children’s books are too depressing
25 Mar 2025 06:14 GMT
… about contemporary children’s books: an awful lot is … namely, storytelling.
The books are a whole world away … marginalisation, problems and conditions
Lauren Child is associated with fun stuff … are increasingly disenchanted with books, into readers. Few would …