Kid Stuff in the Guardian

Here are two items of interest in today's Guardian:

• Haycast #6 is devoted to children's books, with Lauren Child and Malorie Blackman. An audiocast on what's happening at the Hay Festival.
• Anne Fine discusses her latest children's book, The Road of Bones (shortlisted for the Carnegie), and its "inspiration" with Michelle Pauli. (The Road of Bones was inspired by Fine's anger over the Iraq war and the Blair government. )