London has been used as the setting for a number of children’s books, from classics such as P L Travers’ Mary Poppins and Dodie Smith’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians, to contemporary books like Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart and Jamila Gavin’s Coram Boy.

• Storybook England
  An interactive website where you can find out more about children’s books set in England.
• The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
  A small, fun and friendly museum situated in the village where Roald Dahl lived and wrote.
• Seven Stories: the Centre for Children’s Books
  A museum in Newcastle dedicated to the art of British children’s books.
• The Manor, Hemingford Gray (Green Knowe)
  The house that inspired Lucy Boston’s ‘Green Knowe’ books
• Oxford
  The place where C S Lewis wrote the Narnia Stories, Lewis Carroll met Alice in Wonderland and Philip Pullman created his Northern Lights trilogy.  Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford, was used as a setting for parts of the Harry Potter films. A Story Museum is being built in Oxford to celebrate these and other local children’s authors.