Rob Lloyd Jones

About Rob Lloyd Jones Coming from London, the British writer Rob Lloyd Jones is a world renowned author of highly regarded children's fiction. Writing with a colorful and vibrant idiosyncratic style, he really is very much his own author, creating stories that really do stand the test of time. Knowing his young readers, he manages to convey his ideas in an easily accessible manner, whilst also not talking down to his young audience.

The best place to start is the Susanna Davidson Children's series, the earliest of Rob Lloyd Jones's multi-book series: it opens with The Story of Heidi (1816) and runs to 25 books across 1816–2023, ending with Tales of Brave and Brilliant Animals (2023). Rob Lloyd Jones's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Rob Lloyd Jones has 192 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1816 and 2023. 180 of them belong to 11 named series — the largest being the Usborne Illustrated Story Collections series with 38 books — and 12 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Rob Lloyd Jones's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Susanna Davidson Children's (1816–2023, 25 books), Big (1872–2018, 17 books) and Look Inside (1998–2021, 12 books), plus 8 more.

This guide splits Rob Lloyd Jones's 192 books into 11 named series and 12 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Usborne Illustrated Story Collections (38 books, 2003–2023); Usborne Picture (32 books, 2003–2018); Susanna Davidson Children's (25 books, 1816–2023); See Inside and Look Inside... (24 books, 2006–2022); Usborne First Reading Level 2 (22 books, 2007–2015), plus 6 further series.