Some things really get up my nose, especially those things I read on the internet that talk about creativity as if it is something that you can walk in and buy from the supermarket shelf. The latest article that drew my attention to this issue was one about someone having written a successful book using an algorithm. The article talked about how the author simply put it a certain amount of formulaic tosh and the book was created and it was becoming successful. A few years ago

On this week’s Maji Muku Children’s book review we spoke with children’s book author Lucy Reynolds who presented her book “Parrots Don’t Live in the City.” This is a book for children aged 2 to 6 and is filled with bright coloured illustrations that I think most children will find stimulating. One of the things I liked most was that the book is written in a melodious rhyming style that I think would be fetching to the ears of most children. Lucy, who holds a PhD in poetry exp