
Calling all Harry Potter fans!
Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury are searching for the most popular Harry Potter character in the world and want your help! So if you're hopping mad about Hermione, raving about Ron or loopy about Luna then make sure you vote now! You can cast your vote here.


Allan Ahlberg on Peepo!
Allan Ahlberg is one of the country's top children's authors. Together with his wife Janet he created the modern classics Each Peach Pear Plum, Peepo! and The Jolly Postman, and since Janet's untimely death he has continued to work with other illustrators to produce a wide range of inventive storybooks. Allan has also written two acclaimed fictionalised accounts of his childhood, My Brother's Ghost and The Boyhood of Burglar Bill.
It's Peepo's 30th birthday and to celebrate Allan Ahlberg has recorded this great video about how he created the brilliant picture book with his wife Janet.


Are you the next Jack Fletcher or Akiko?
To celebrate the release of Young Samurai: The Ring of Water Puffin have teamed up with British Judo to launch The Young Samurai Challenge. Upload a video of yourself practicing martial arts
and WIN a Young Samurai Judo suit! Don't practice martial arts?
Don't worry, there's a fantastic prize for the funniest video too!
Click here for more information


A big congratulations to Maia Gosforth from the National Church of England School in Grantham. Maia's green-fingered garden design was the winner of our Growing Gardens competition!

