Junior Loves: Children's Books

Whether you are celebrating World Book Day with your child, reading them a favourite bedtime story, or discovering a new author, there are always plenty of rewarding reasons to seek out a book.

We have curated a selection of fantastic children's books, including new release roundups, and lots of interviews with favourite authors and illustrators, alongside our Junior Design Award recommended reads.

Read all about it, from our Children's Books homepage

Including...

• The Top 100 Children's Books So, here they are! The best books for children of all time, as voted for by Junior readers
• Junior meets Eric Carle Author of your favourite children's book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• A letter of note from children's author, Allan Ahlberg Junior's Catherine Hudson recently rediscovered replies to letters she wrote, as a child, to world-renowned children's authors. Here, in the first of the series, is an entertaining reply from Allan Ahlberg...
• The Exclusive Interview: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Junior catches up with author Jeff Kinney on his trip to the UK to promote his latest book Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
• Junior Meets: The Gruffalo creator, Axel Scheffler Out of his pen has flown everyone from the fearsome Gruffalo to unlucky jogger Stick Man and melodious miaow-er Tabby McTat. We meet adroit illustrator Axel Scheffler
• A day in the life of: Children's author, Catherine Rayner We spend a day with children's author, Catherine Rayner, from rise and shine, through office hours to storytime
• Storybook Heroes No 14: Winnie-the-Pooh Meet the brilliant fictional characters who have become timeless classics in the world of children's books
• Best Classic Book 2013 *Winner* Goldilocks by Allan and Jessica Ahlberg The fairytale favourite gets a witty and captivating update
• Picture Book of the Year 2013 *Winner* Oh No, George by Chris Haughton A mischievous mutt stars in Chris Houghton's morality tale