Anthony Horowitz considers the role of the family in children's writing, focusing on family dysfunction in Dahl's Matilda and his own eccentric relations. Show more

Anne Fine explores family in children's literature, taking a feminist view of our nostalgia for childhood favourites such as The Tiger that Came to Tea. Show more

Children's author Trish Cooke explores the changing role of family in literature, explaining how the omission of her culture in her childhood books inspired her to write. Show more

Michael Rosen considers the changing role of the family in children's literature, and how the fictional parent has come to reflect a shift in parenting style. Show more

Julia Eccleshare considers the changing role of the family in children's literature. Exploring Jacqueline Wilson's The Illustrated Mum, Julia discusses modern fairytales. Show more