A bookshop becomes a sanctuary in a post-apocalyptic romance, a connection is forged through food – and a codebreaker learns the language of big beasts
January 2025
Children's book reviews round-up
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books
From ecology-saving zombies to a murderous tattoo and a chilly new school for magic, the new year launches with fresh twists on familiar themes
April 2024
Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, dies aged 94
Writer was also one of first female news reporters on British TV, interviewing stars such as Charlie Chaplin
September 2023
‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones
Long before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a school for witches. Fifty years after the author of Howl’s Moving Castle published her first novel for children, Rundell celebrates the writer who inspired her own fantasy debut
May 2022
Harry Potter and the missing sketches: JK Rowling’s first drawings of boy wizard
Author’s original drawings for her first Hogwarts novel to appear in print – alongside the return of a mysterious wizard
April 2022
David McKee obituary
Creator of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and Mr Benn, who wrote and illustrated children’s classics
August 2021
Jill Murphy, children’s author and illustrator, dies aged 72
The writer was best known for the much-loved picture book Peace at Last and the Worst Witch series of novels
May 2021
My kids won’t even pick up a book – and it is definitely all my fault
Zoe Williams
Reading has brought me endless joy, but I have accidentally crushed my children’s enthusiasm. It is a terrible indictment
November 2020
Ask a children's author
'That's such a good one!': Emily Rodda, author of Deltora Quest, answers kids' questions – video
Beloved Australian children's author Emily Rodda answers your questions
September 2020
Story of ‘bloodthirsty unicorns’ brings debut author record publishing deal
Annabel Steadman’s fantasy series Skandar and the Unicorn Thief has won a seven-figure book contract, with film rights also sold to Sony Pictures
June 2020
Ask a children's author
Garth Nix answers your questions: on JRR Tolkien, gaming and pronouncing characters' names – video
The young adult fantasy author opens up about queer representation, perfectionism and his writing tips
May 2020
The good place
Ask a children's author: young adult fantasy writer Garth Nix wants to hear your questions – video
In a new interview series from Guardian Australia, we're letting kids and young adults take control. If your child is a fan of Garth Nix’s books, with a burning query for him, please send us their question by 25 May
March 2020
Fiction for older children reviews: from sleuths to woolly mammoths
Gripping yarns spring from a submerged city, desperate street life and the jungles of Sri Lanka
October 2019
Other lives
Paul Birkbeck obituary
Other lives: Prolific artist and illustrator for BBC children’s television
September 2019
Children's book reviews round-up
Fiction for older children reviews: flying puns and dangerous games
Fowl play with the brothers of Artemis, a risky dream game and a Russian bear-girl mystery
December 2018
Children's book reviews round-up
The best children’s books of 2018 for all ages
From celebrity-penned tales to fresh interpretations of the classics, here is our pick of the best for hungry readers from tots to teens
August 2018
Books interview
Alan Garner: ‘I just let the voice settle and listened’
The acclaimed children’s author on writing a memoir about his wartime upbringing in rural Cheshire
July 2018
Why are children’s books stuck in monochrome?
Sanchita Basu De Sarkar
The joy of seeing someone who looks like you on a page is huge – but some of us have a hard time finding them, says children’s bookshop owner Sanchita Basu De Sarkar
June 2018
The shifting patterns of English
May I have a word about… Geraldine McCaughrean and ‘difficult’ children’s words
Jonathan Bouquet
Imagine if publishers had objected to tricky concepts in days gone by: no JK Rowling, CS Lewis, John Masefield…
March 2018
Tomi Adeyemi: ‘We need a black girl fantasy book every month’
Author of Children of Blood and Bone says her debut novel was a response to genre fiction in which the characters were always white
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