Lauren Child is well known for her Charlie and Lola series of books. All of her books we own feature characters that are children, and they all have the same sort of illustrations that are quite flat and child like in appearance. This short story features a little boy called Herb. He is having a sleepover with his friend Ezzie. When they are dropping off to sleep, Herb picks up a book to read, and he finds himself in the middle of this book of fairytales. We get to see Goldilocks and Cinderalla how they have never been before. Herb has previously vandalised this book by drawing in it and tearing out parts of pages, and the characters are not at ...  Read the complete review

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf is an inspired picture book by the author Lauren Child (author of the well loved Charlie and Lola books). This story is about a young boy called Herb who falls asleep whilst reading his fairytale book. He wakes up to find, much to his surprise, that he is in the cottage of the three bears and goldilocks (who is not amused) is yelling at him to get out. He follows her command and after meeting several fairytale characters, he realises that he must have fallen into his story book. Herb soon gets into lots of trouble with all of the different characters as he sees how ruining his book by ripping pages and drawing on them has ...  Read the complete review