It’s not often that you meet your heroes, but I did a decade ago at a London book launch. I noticed a pleasant older man ...

To day no great poet but takes notice of children. A visit to any exhibition or gallery of pictures is very sure to show us youthful forms and a sentiment which rests in childhood, and there is an ...

Michael Rosen has paid tribute to Allan Ahlberg and remembered him as a “pioneer of great children’s literature”. The author, ...

Allan and Janet Ahlberg’s partnership redefined children’s books that continue to delight generations of young readers.

With a charismatic host and charming book readings and reviews, the hit series “Reading Rainbow” stands as a beacon of ...

Beloved author Allan Ahlberg, who wrote the children’s classic Funnybones, has died aged 87, his publisher Penguin Random ...

Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by Janet Ahlberg, including classics like “Each Peach ...

Although Greek mythology is considered a staple of childhood literature today, before Nathaniel Hawthorne, these stories were considered to be too adult in theme for children, according to Sheila ...

I. To hunt through English literature and art for representations of childhood would seem to be like looking for the persons of children in any place where people congregate.