In this article David Lewis talks to Posy Simmonds about her career in illustration, cartooning and the writing and illustration of picturebooks. Together they discuss her early experience of working as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines; her first attempt at creating a weekly adult cartoon strip and her subsequent career as a regular…

In this interview Fiona French discusses her work and career with David Lewis. She describes early influences and stresses her lifelong love of colour and pattern. Amongst other themes she considers the factual basis of most of her books and her lack of interest in fantasy; her preference for clear, simple prose; her constant shifts in style and…

Outlines a brief history of "Signal," a journal on children's literature. Includes the reflections of 10 contributors to "Signal" on the importance of the journal. Explains that "Signal" ceased publication after its 100th issue in the summer of 2003. (PM)

Looks closely at the way an illustrator and picture book maker, Colin McNaughton, draws children into a special sense of being "in the know." States that McNaughton adapts a wide range of features from comics to the constraints of the picture book and relies on an unspoken pact between reader and writer/artist familiar to all comics readers. (PA)