The new children’s laureate on why society is too goal-oriented and how she plans to use her role to encourage youngsters to develop their creativity by ‘just having a go’Children are often told what’s good for them, but the advice of the new children’s laureate may take them by surprise. Lauren Child, speaking for the first time since her investiture in Hull this summer, has a simple message: just stare into space. It is a thesis she will explain on a new website and in an inaugural lecture in London on 19 September. “I want to talk about the fact that children’s writers approach their work just as seriously as any other writer approaches work. “I have a slight worry that we are seen as children’s entertainers, particularly with the number of comedians who are now also writing books for children.

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2017 22:52 UTC