Poet Laura Dockrill reads her favourite childhood poem, 'The Pig' by Roald Dahl, to celebrate the Imagine Children's Festival. She says:

Roald Dahl has and always will be my largest inspiration. He is a prominent figure and inspiration for me and what I do. Flitting between poetry, short stories and novels for both adults and children he is really, very important for me and what I do. In my view, Dahl breaks boundaries, he is a storyteller in its most honest and natural form and was my first admiration for writing- he taught me how to write.
Bookseller Crow (www.booksellercrow.co.uk)
A funny little story, whilst writing and "living the dream" (I say with sacasm) I have to do the odd job here and there to earn a little lolly so I can write. During a lunch break one day i stumble across Bookseller Crow, spend the majority of my break marvelling at the shop before I finally pluck up the courage to say "erm...I write books..."

To make things better, Jonathan at Bookseller Crow opened Clapham Books, the first bookshop I ever discovered poetry, EVER, the first shop I ever bought my first poetry book with my own money, I think I even pulled out one of my milk teeth in that book shop!

The rest is history...I now go past Bookseller Crow with a bright red face as Jon usually has made the most flamboyant beautiful window display out of my books, he is an incredible supporter of my work and my poetry and equally I am huge supporter of him and his cool little independent book shop!