Inspiring Young Readers

My grandson is only nine months old but is already besotted with dogs...

The Letterpress Project is delighted to be able to reproduce this article was originally published on Picture Book Den,

I don’t know if children had much bigger stockings in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain .....

Originally published by Hasegawa Takejirō in 1885.........

It’s an amazing, creepy world I’ve never been a fan of American superhero comics.

Sometimes a fictional book comes to life before my eyes - and it isn't necessarily a good experience.

I didn’t grow up reading Puffin paperbacks – I didn’t grow up reading much beyond comics in fact.

I've written before about the need for children to read about dementia as part of a ''normal' social landscape...

The other evening I spent time with Michael Peach, an elderly retired architect who lives in a splendid Hobbit- like house...

I’ve noticed that quite an interesting debate going on in some corners of the internet about whether children are ‘over-toyed’.