Swearing, snogging and spying: Cherub’s cool teenage secret agents hit 20
Robert Muchamore’s series of novels about young undercover intelligence operatives with troubled lives shook up the sanitised world of early noughties YA literature
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books
Lauren Child brings a light touch to big issues, Elle McNicoll explores autism – and a secret society is at work in Paris’s sewers
Martha Mills young writers’ prize open for entries
Philip Pullman will help choose this year’s winners of award set up in memory of the keen young writer who died aged 13 in 2021
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
An ungrammatical egg; a demystifying approach to death; 10 new poets to read aloud; and a stunning gothic mystery
‘She was like an auntie to me’: Lynne Reid Banks remembered by Michael Morpurgo
The astonishing breadth of her writing was a great inspiration – as was she, in her passionate advocacy for children’s books
Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published
The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings
Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting
Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind
Lynne Reid Banks obituary
Bestselling author of the 1960 novel The L-Shaped Room and the children’s classic The Indian in the Cupboard
Laurent de Brunhoff obituary
Author and illustrator who carried on his father Jean’s adventures of Babar in more than 40 books
Botanical fairytale set in Kew Gardens wins the Waterstones children’s book prize
Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson – about a girl who finds a door to a magical realm while searching for her mother – wins the overall and young readers awards
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Farming adventures; tales from the set of The Sound of Music; King Arthur reimagined; unrest in near-future London and more
Carnegie medal for children’s books shortlist announced
A reinterpretation of the Minotaur myth, poetry exploring refugee experiences and a picture book looking at the human impact on nature all feature on the shortlist judged solely by librarians
‘Sheer storytelling brilliance’: Kate Saunders’s daring, versatile, beloved work lives on
From crime mysteries to award-winning children’s books, Saunders imbued her novels with her unique personality – and she has gifted us one more, published posthumously, to enjoy
Tears, fancy-dress tyranny and tedious discourse: it can only be World Book Day
The pressure can be overwhelming – so I gave up on green eggs and ham and found a low-effort solution, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books
Time travel lessons, secret underwater schools and careers in demon hunting feature among this month’s selection