Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Open Book spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
This week
Sunday 10 December 2006
Mariella and guests Lauren Child, Meg Rosoff, David McKee and Julia Eccleshare, discuss how to choose a good childrens' book from the thousands on sale this Christmas
Childrens' Books Special
Pop into most bookshops at the moment and you’re likely to be overwhelmed.
The sheer number of books is positively intimidating and nowhere is this more frightening than in the children’s book section.
There’s a good reason for this; children’s books are big business. Last year alone we bought more than fifty million of them and we’re well on course to exceed that figure this year.
The appetite is there but how do you choose?
In Open Book this week Mariella Frostrup turns to some of Britain’s best children’s authors, Lauren Child, Meg Rosoff, and David McKee, and the Guardian Children's Books Editor Julia Eccleshare in search of an answer, so join them and dispel your Christmas doubts.
