Lockdown is a really interesting experience as a children's writer, because - like evacuation - it feels like SUCH an obvious starting-point for a children's book. School is closed! Your parents are busy! You've all moved in with grandma! Plot happens!

I keep thinking about what other writers might have done with it.
'Lockdown Shoes' by Noel Streatfeild. A family of children are horrified when lockdown is declared. Laura because her audition to the Royal Ballet School is cancelled - and how will she keep up her ballet lessons?

Simon because he misses his friends and his film club. And Lucy because she'd just go the main part in the school play. But then they have a wonderful idea - why not put on their own show and film it at home?

'Lulu in Lockdown' by Jacqueline Wilson. Lulu and her little brother and sister are excited when school closes. Lulu is determined to be the best big sister ever! But when Mum loses her job and sinks into depression, they realise it might not be as exciting as they thought ...

LOCKDOWN! by Anthony Horowitz. Stuck at home all day with his businessman father, Xander soon realises that his father's job is not all that it seems. What sinister plots are his company hatching on Zoom? And can he stop them?

The Rainbow by Paul Gallico. A neglected child spends lockdown in a walled garden, making friends with the wise, lonely old man on the other side of the wall ...

Five on Lockdown Island by Enid Blyton - The Famous Five's parents have no worries about childcare during lockdown - they issue their kids with a tent and some ginger beer and tell them to get on with it. Can they stop the smugglers while still staying socially distant?

An Ephemeral Sense of Connection by John Green - For Elizabeth, lockdown is nothing new - she suffers from agoraphobia. But when she meets the handsome young Benedict through her window, she begins to think that perhaps some things are worth stepping outside for ...

Please feel free to add your own!