Get a job spy cellphone The resulting collection was judged to be “one of the best five books ever written for children” by Michael Rosen when he was the Children’s Laureate. While Jones hasn’t yet written any fairytales for his youngest daughter – “she’s still a bit young for that sort of thing” – he does have a new book of stories out, Evil Machines, described on the cover as “Monty Python meets Roald Dahl”. Among the stories is one about a phone that always tells the truth and another about a lift that takes people to places they don’t want to go.