Author interviews

As Clarice Bean turns 10, Lauren Child talks to Madelyn Travis about her first, and favourite, character.

Rick Riordan talks about his favourite myths and gives tips on encouraging reading for pleasure.

Award-winning illustrator Shaun Tan answers talks about his books, whether he will be embracing digital books any time soon and shares his favourite illustrated books and illustrators with us.

Fabio Geda, author of In the Sea there are Crocodiles, talks about how he wrote the story of Enaiatollah Akbari's journey from Afghanistan to Italy.

We caught up with Anthony Browne, just back from the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature Festival in Dubai, about his memoir, the importance of comics and fairytales and his legacy as Children's Laureate.

We spoke to Andrew Peters about his new novel Ravenwood – a gripping action story with an environmental theme set in a future world of giant trees and his latest collection of poems Leaves Are Like Traffic Lights.

Read a Q&A with Patrick Ness and Jim Kay about A Monster Calls.

Anthony Horowitz talks about the end of the Alex Rider series, his next books and the importance of reading.

Rebecca Stead talks about her award-winning book When You Reach Me

‘Trivia was invented for me!’ – we catch up with Blue Peter award winner Mitchell Symons