London Book Fair 2026 - Living Paintings

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Listen and feel along to the books on the stand

Living Paintings books use touch and sound to help children who are blind or visually impaired access the visual world. Each book comes with an exclusive audio guide that describes all the illustrations and tactile pages in great detail so that young readers don’t miss out on any visual feature that can help them access and understand the wonderful world of stories and learning.

Try for yourself!

Pick up a book and click on the corresponding audio excerpt below to use touch and sound to immerse yourself in the magic of the stories.

  • There is a large, decorated Christmas tree with wrapped presents underneath it. Mog, the cat, is playing with a bauble and has some tinsel wrapped around her tail.

Mog’s Christmas

Tacy Kneale, the author Judith Kerr’s daughter, beautifully reads the audio description for Mog’s Christmas.

 

Ellie feeling Mog the Forgetful Cat

Mog’s Christmas audio excerpt

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Giovanna Fletcher lends her voice to the audio description of this wonderful, classic tale for children.

A tactile image of the hungry caterpillar. The caterpillar has a long, green body, six stumpy feet, and a red face with a big, open mouth.Giovanna Fletcher holds up a tactile copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar - open on a page of the caterpillar as a tactile illustration.

Hungry Caterpillar audio excerpt

  • Supertato, a potato wearing a black eye mask, black belt with S buckle, and red superhero cape, is standing on the title banner which reads Supertato in large purple letters. There is a small green pea peeking out between the letters. Supertato is smiling.

Supertato

Supertato audio description is read by the brilliant, Greg James.

Radio 1 DJ Greg James in the studio. He is sat at a recording desk with a mocrophone in front of him, holding the Supertato book. He has his arm in the air as he reads.A tactile illustration of Supertato overlayed with the original picture

Supertato audio excerpt

The Gruffalo’s Child

Audio description kindly read by Lauren Laverne.

Lauren Laverne smiling whilst sitting on a sofa. A girl with curly hair feels a tactile version of The Gruffalo

The Gruffalo’s Child audio excerpt

About our books

All of our books are handcrafted by our incredible volunteers. Illustrations from the story are recreated in tactile form and are accompanied by clear braille pages and exclusive audio descriptions that guide visually impaired children through all the illustrations and raised pictures to help them access stories and learning through touch and sound.

Our tactile books are available for free from our postal library for blind and visually impaired children across the UK.

Making The Gruffalo accessible for blind and visually impaired children

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Support us

We support over 5,000 blind and visually impaired children with our unique audio tactile books and resources. There are so many more children who have yet to discover the benefit of our work.

Here are some ways you can support Living Paintings to reach more children.

Other fun titles to explore…

In the middle of a leafy green wood is a black and white badger who is dropping a piece of litter into a bin. Above him, in a gap of the trees is the word Tidy written in large black letters
Two scarecrows, Betty O’Barley and Harry O’Hay are standing close to each other smiling, in the middle of a hay field. Watching them are cows, geese, a gosling, a crab, a mouse and a snail. Behind them is a big blue tractor. Flying up in the golden sky there is a bee, a butterfly and a crow.
Great Bake Book Cover
Gorilla by Anthony Browne front cover
The Snowman. The book of the classic film based on the story by Raymond Briggs. Picture shows The Snowman walking hand in hand with a little boy and snow falling all around them.

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