If you’re an infrequent visitor to London’s most sophisticated family magazine’s website (that’s us!), you might not know how many competitions we run.

We’ve got three on the go at the moment (whizz over to our home page to have a look), and enter. In each case all you need to do is correctly answer a question. All winning entries go into a virtual hat, and the computer picks a lucky winner. So if you fancy:

Winning tickets to the South Bank’s Le Cirque Invisible, click here.

Click here for your chance to win tickets to Le Cirque Invisible

Perhaps a set of five signed copies of Hachette Children’s Books’ Mr Croc books is more your thing? Click here for you chance to add some classics to your child’s library.

Win some snappily titled Mr Croc books

Older children would love CBBC’s Dan and Jeff in the hilarious Potted Potter – the Unauthorised Potter Experience. This retelling of all seven Harry Potter books in 70 minutes involves numerous costume changes, ridiculous props and a game of Quidditch involving the audience. Don’t forget your broomstick. For you chance to enter, click here.

A magical West End experience could be yours

Go for it! Someone has to be a winner, and it might well be you.

A birthday party for 20 children, with a visit from a Pipling, is one of our 10 year anniversary raffle's top prizes

Only two days until we draw the angels & urchins 10th anniversary raffle on 29 June!

A real Pipling turning up for tea, along with 20 Waybuloo-themed goody bags and all the trimmings for a fantastic party, is just one of the prizes in angels & urchins’ 10-year anniversary raffle. And the Waybuloo party winner even gets a £100 M&S voucher to spend on all the party food.

How about a holiday for for at Mark Warner's San Lucianu Beach Resort, Corsica?

The raffle is part of a month of celebrations to mark angels & urchins 10th anniversary, and to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.

We’ve blogged about this before (don’t miss our Silent Auction for your chance to own an original piece of art by Axel Scheffler, Mick Inkpen and many more), but make no excuses for that – what better charity could a London family magazine associate itself with than a hospital that helps children from around the world?

Other prizes include a week’s holiday to Sicily with Mark Warner, and a state of the art and limited edition Night at the Menagerie Mountain Buggy from Out n About. There are vouchers for gorgeous clothing from 9London and Amaia, and a photography session from Coral Garlick so you can show off your new look. Add a gift hamper worth more than £500 from award-winning gift company The Handpicked Collection, and three month’s membership, including joining fee, to swanky member’s club Cupcake,, and we hope you’ll agree that we’ve some prizes that are seriously worth a £5 per ticket investment.

Lovely gifts for all the family from The Handpicked Collection

Tickets are £5 each and you can see the full list of prizes here.

GOOD LUCK!!

Want to own your very own piece of art from the illustrators behind Angelina Ballerina, The Gruffalo and Kipper the Dog?

Welcome to angels & urchins’ Silent Auction of original artworks to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital

Axel Scheffler's original Pip and Posy piece of art could be yours

One-off illustrations from Emma Chichester Clark, Helen Craig, Alex Scheffler, Mike Inkpen, Chris Riddell, David McKee, Sarah Dyer and Neal Layton are just some of the famous children’s book illustrators who have generously donated specially commissioned pieces of original artwork of characters from their children’s books to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital in a special silent art auction.

Blue Kangaroo, Mr Benn, Angelina Ballerina, Emily Brown and A Little Fiend are among the original illustrations which will be auctioned.  Bidding online starts on Wednesday 22 June here. The auction will close at an ‘Old Fashioned Tea Party’ being held in Hyde Park on 29 June. The art auction forms the centrepiece of activity to celebrate the 10th anniversary of parenting magazine angels & urchins.

Imagine Angelina Ballerina dancing on your wall!

You can join the auction by emailing your bid to annie@angelsandurchins.co.uk with your name, address and contact details. The auction results will be announced on Wednesday 29 June at 6pm. There will be regular updates of the paintings, and other 10 year birthday celebrations, online at the a&u 10 Years news icon at angelsandurchins.co.uk.

The illustrations available for auction include:

Emma Chichester Clark (Blue Kangaroo)

Axel Scheffler (Pip and Posy The Super Scooter)

Helen Craig (Angelina Ballerina)

Charlotte Voake (Ginger)

David McKee (Mr Benn and the Shopkeeper)

Chris Wormell (George the Mouse)

Sarah Dyer (Fiend from Five Little Fiends)

Chris Riddell (The Emperor of Absurdia)

Neal Layton (Emily Brown)

Mike Inkpen

Annie Reid, co-editor, says, “I’m sure that these illustrations will be familiar to many as the books are firm fixtures on any child’s bookshelf.  We would like to thank the illustrators for their generosity in donating these wonderful and inspirational artworks. “

Celebrating books and reading is at the heart of angels & urchins.  Over the past ten years the team has reviewed thousands of picture books to offer concise and heartfelt reviews in each issue.   To celebrate their 10^th anniversary, the editors have pored over their favourite books and chosen their top picture books of the last ten years. And here’s the list in full:

Annie continues, “What is it that makes a book great?  Story time is a delight when both child and adults find the book engaging.   The wonderful thing about this list is that they are all so different and there is something for everyone.   For those of us who love fantastic rhymes it doesn’t get better than ‘Hairy pants, fairy pants, run away from scary pants’ in Giles Andreae’s Pants and it always made my children scream with laughter.  Michael Morpurgo’s brilliant retelling of Hansel and Gretel with beautiful illustrations from Emma Chichester Clark is quite dark and doesn’t shy away from the original story.  Who doesn’t empathise with Gerald in Giraffe’s Can’t Dance?  This story came out the year we started angels & urchins and it was an instant hit; ten years on, I am reading it to my three-year-old twins and it still brings a tear to my eyes.”

Emily Turner, co-editor, angels & urchins says, “The technical advances in production of the past decade have meant that illustrators can have even more fun with the way their ideas are presented. Lauren Child’s stunning sets in the Princess and the Pea never fail to amaze me. Some of our chosen titles have generated spin offs, complete with sensory stimulants and soft toys.  But, in every case, the reason they withstand reading and re-reading is because of a magical synergy between the words and the pictures.  When it works, it is one of the wonders of childhood.”