children's

Welcome to The Caterpillar ‒ an art & literature magazine for children aged 7‒11 which we have been publishing since 2013. The spring 2023 was our last, but we continue with The Caterpillar Poetry Prize (judged this year by Kate Wakeling), as well as The Moth Poetry Prize, The Moth Short Story...

Yay! I've just had a zoom interview with Charlotte of The Golden Egg Academy. Having read my first 2000 words (of Dangerously Fae) and my synopsis, she thinks I'm a really strong writer and has accepted me onto their one year course for writing Children's and YA! (Starts January). It's a lot of...

Irish book publishers do accept submissions from unagented writers, but the bar is high. Not so much for the romance/ women's fiction genre-but children's books. The competition is tough. Very impressed by this list of books for the Halloween season. I had to order one immediately. For my...

"A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest." C.S. Lewis

Trouble at a school in Florida sparked by effing, blinding and blasphemy in 'The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night', by Mark Haddon. I have given this book to a private pupil of mine to read, extra to her English GCSE curriculum activities. I trust her father (a very correct gentleman...