In the penultimate part of our autumn series, the award-winning author has a leaf through the best new children’s books that will get children chortling

Illustration from The Diary of Wiska Wildflower: The New School by Harriet Muncaster (Oxford University Press)

Illustration from The Diary of Wiska Wildflower: The New School by Harriet Muncaster (Oxford University Press)

It’s an exciting time for children’s comic books, featuring the likes of an inept fairy, a megalomaniac duck and an adventurous mouse. Here are 25 gems that will put a spring in the step of your young ones and keep them laughing out loud and reading.

by Harriet Muncaster (Oxford University Press)