Raymond Briggs remembered: ‘He made what he did look easy. Which is, of course, what geniuses do’
The beloved writer and illustrator of the Snowman and Father Christmas has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute
Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88
Beloved creator of Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas brought a distinctive strain of melancholy to the genre
Poet Nikita Gill: ‘I worry about people getting tattoos of my work. What if I made a typo?’
Her touching verses about heartbreak, fat-shaming and body hair have made her Britain’s most-followed poet on social media – and now she’s heading for TV
Laurinda takes the stage: ‘Private school culture needs to change – the insularity, the entitlement’
Author Alice Pung and the two minds behind a new adaptation reflect on the beloved story of a girl navigating high school – Mean Girls meets Fight Club, with an Asian-Australian twist
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
An angry kitten; a guide to rewilding; Mabinogion magic; wartime adventures; Olympian gods; first love and more; plus the best YA novels
The Guardian view on book prizes: don’t forget the children
Editorial: In a changing awards landscape, fiction for young readers should not be left out in the cold
Picture books for children – reviews
The human body is brought to life, difference is celebrated – and a very long dinosaur is tickled pink
Joan Lingard obituary
Prolific author best known for the Kevin and Sadie young adult novels charting friendship across the divide in 1970s Belfast
Never fear! Mo Willems’ spectacularly unscary monster is gobbled up by kids
Manual Cinema’s stage version of Leonardo the Terrible Monster is heading for the Edinburgh fringe – and its adaptors hope it inspires audiences to create their own creatures
‘There’s obviously a market’: why are there so many children’s books about anxiety?
Publishing is awash with titles for kids focused on worries, feelings and emotional literacy – and parents are buying them in droves
Rooted by Sarah Langford; Regenesis by George Monbiot reviews – how to fix farming
Modern agriculture isn’t working. Two energising books come up with contrasting solutions
Children’s books world reacts to ‘horrible loss’ of Blue Peter book awards
BookTrust which ran the awards said its limited resources would now be directed to disadvantaged families
Marcus Rashford Book Club to give away 50,000 books this summer
Initiative led by the footballer will distribute copies of his own children’s adventure book to young readers with little access to reading
Joseph Coelho chosen as Britain’s new children’s laureate
The poet and children’s author, who takes over from Cressida Cowell, was praised as an ‘extraordinary advocate for making poetry accessible to all’
Young adult books round-up – reviews
The highs and lows of first-love relationships, modern-day mythology and summer escapism are among this month’s pick of teenage fiction