Piers Torday

The dark story behind Bambi, the book Hitler banned

22 January 2022 9:00 am

The extent of Walt Disney’s grasp of the natural world remains unclear. After the Austrian author Felix Salten sold the…

Children’s books provide the perfect escape from coronovirus

11 July 2020 9:00 am

The lockdown we have been enduring has at times felt drawn from the pages of a children’s book. The eerie…

The lonely passion of Beatrix Potter

10 December 2016 9:00 am

The story of the extraordinary boom in children’s literature over the last 100 years could be bookended with a ‘Tale…