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All from the Books : Children and Teenagers pages of the Guardian:

• Well, the first has to be about Lauren Child.  Here’s an interview with her. Can you believe Clarice Bean is 10?

… her name is not Lauren. “That is true,” she admits when I ask about it. Her real name is?

• The Gruffalo is being animated by the Wallace and Gromit people
• An assessment of the work of illustrator Bruce Ingman

Find out in this interview with him from The Guardian.

The path from Carle’s upbringing in Nazi Germany to the most beloved of children’s authors and illustrators is one that, when he cares to indulge in self-analysis, he admits makes a certain sense. The link between the deprivations of his early years and the slant of his artwork, so bursting with light and joy and exuberant colour, is such that, he says, if he had grown up in greater comfort he would probably be “pumping gas” these days.

Judith Ridge has alerted readers of her Misrule blog to the death, announced in the Sydney Morning Herald,  of illustrator Kilmeny Niland. The illustrator was the daughter of Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland and Deborah’s twin.

Kilmeny Niland’s sudden death is a great loss to Australian children’s literature.