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For April's picture book club it was another first as we headed to Cambridge, home of author-illustrators Margarita Surnaite and Eva Eland. Of course, we met Eva for the first time when she made the trip to Reading Waterstones last month so it was great to make a return visit to her home town with [...]

For March's picture book club we made a return to Broad Street Books, Waterstones Reading and we were delighted to welcome Eva Eland all the way from Cambridge. Author-illustrator Eva Eland's debut picture book When Sadness Comes To Call is out now with Andersen Press. The hardback edition is gorgeous with a matt embossed cover [...]

It's a year since we did the last blog for the Federation of Children's Book Groups Children's Book Award. Coincidently, it is also a year since John Condon, the author of Mavericks Arts The Wondrous Dinosaurium, came to visit Picture Book Club just before his book was published. What a thrill then to find that [...]

In February Picture Book Club made the first of what we hope will be a series of forays north of the border with a visit to Blackwells Bookshop in Edinburgh to meet author-illustrator Morag Hood. I went to the London launch of Morag's debut picture book Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea. It was my [...]

As there was no physical #picturebookclub in November we're thrilled to be able to bring you a virtual interview instead. Georgina Atwell, the very busy and rather marvellous head honcho at book review website Toppsta, agreed to tell us about what she does to help spread the good news about children's books: "Four years ago [...]