Childhood lasts a lifetime.” This much-quoted statement from Floella Benjamin was in the news again this week as the children ...

Television has lost its courage, the creator of Grange Hill said. Sir Phil Redmond, the creator of some of Britain’s ...

Browsing the bookshops, Jean Adamson found “lovely books about dragons and fairies and witches but absolutely nothing about children in the Fifties”. Existing stories of childhood tended to be ...

The award-winning author published more than 40 books - including the best-selling Tomorrow series, which chronicled a fictional invasion and occupation of Australia. The young adult series has ...

Letters from the Inside resonated with me, spoke to me, had impact and as a consequence, Marsden's other books were ones I ... "With no children of his own, along the way, John has copped a ...

Acclaimed Australian author John Marsden has died aged 74 ... He won many major awards for children's and adult fiction, and in 2006 received the Lloyd O'Neil Award for contributions to Australian ...

Jean Adamson, the children's author known for writing the Topsy And Tim book series, has died at the age of 96. Her family, who confirmed the writer died on Sunday, said her memory will "live on ...

THE beloved children's book author best known for Topsy and Tim Jean Adamson has died aged 96. The creator sadly passed on Sunday, December 15, her publisher Ladybird confirmed. Her family said in ...

Ladybird described Jean as “one of our most beloved and respected children’s book creators". The author and illustrator created an incredible 150 books in a 60-year career. Her beloved ...

Jean Adamson, the popular children’s author best known for her Topsy And Tim series, has died aged 96. In a statement released by Ladybird Books, Adamson’s family announced with “deep sorrow ...