Unfinished Dick King-Smith book completed by great-granddaughter
Ambrose Follows His Nose, found half-finished last year among the late children’s author’s papers, will be published to mark his centenary in 2022
Jason Reynolds wins Carnegie medal for ‘breathtaking’ Look Both Ways
The UK’s most prestigious prize for children’s books goes to the US ambassador for young people’s literature, while Canadian Sydney Smith takes Kate Greenaway medal for illustration
The Smartest Giant in Town review – a very tall tale
Nutty animals and witty puppetry liven up this at times bleak version of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture book
True to nature: Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and more on the children’s books that inspired them
From Watership Down to The Animals of Farthing Wood, leading nature writers discuss the children’s classics that made them want to write about the natural world
Stephen Mangan: ‘Whenever I considered writing, I thought: “What right do you have?”’
The Green Wing and Episodes star talks about making the leap from acting to writing a children’s book about bereavement, and grieving for Helen McCrory and Paul Ritter
Summer reading: the 50 hottest new books everyone should read
From missing lighthouse keepers to the healing power of trees ... 50 new fiction and nonfiction books to enjoy. Plus recent paperbacks to pack and the best children’s stories
Fiction for older children – reviews
Supernatural forces that enchant a Nigerian village, a life-saving boy called Lonny and a self-help title from Marcus Rashford that hits the spot
Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels
A lost puppy, a judo-practising guinea pig and victory for a girls’ football team, plus the best new YA novels
Children’s authors on Eric Carle: ‘He created readers as voracious as that caterpillar’
Authors from Julia Donaldson to Cressida Cowell pay tribute to the beloved author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, who has died aged 91
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Top 10 books about ballet
From Noel Streatfeild to David Hallberg, this is a literature of passion and madness, ambition and addiction
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence win Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Makumbi wins book of the year for her novel The First Woman, while Lawrence takes inaugural children’s books prize for Eight Pieces of Silva
Rebel girl: the fierce fashion renaissance of Alice in Wonderland
From Disney’s blond teenager to Tim Burton’s surreal reimagining and an all-black Pirelli calendar, Lewis Carroll’s character has had many lives and looks. A new V&A exhibition charts them all
John Burningham’s final picture book is poignant tale of ‘difficult’ dog’s last trip
Air Miles has been illustrated by his wife Helen Oxenbury and finished by Bill Salaman, friend of the author who died in 2019
My kids won’t even pick up a book – and it is definitely all my fault
Reading has brought me endless joy, but I have accidentally crushed my children’s enthusiasm. It is a terrible indictment