‘He was a kid with a million questions’: Fauci to star in children’s book
Publisher says expert did not endorse book titled Dr Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor
Bravery, hope and escape: the best books to cheer up kids in lockdown
From polar bears to murder mysteries, Katherine Rundell’s picks will make long days feel shorter and a small world seem larger
See that cute animal? It’s about to go extinct: Dear Zoo gets an update
Look After Us, a companion book to Dear Zoo, delivers hard lessons about saving wildlife, explains its author, Rod Campbell
The Guardian view on the picture book: not just for children
Editorial: When a Nobel-prizewinning novelist turns to illustrated fiction, it’s time to question assumptions
Shortlist for Carnegie medal offers locked-down children ‘hope and escapism’
Run simultaneously with the Kate Greenaway medal for illustration, judges say this year’s finalists should inspire and empower their young readers
Faith Ringgold: ‘I’m not going to see riots and not paint them’
In a 70-year career, Ringgold has shown the US its bloody, brutal side. And yet the artist started out wanting to paint landscapes … She talks about growing up during the Harlem Renaissance and her battles with the establishment
Beano hero: Dennis the Menace turns 70
The perennial naughty schoolboy is entering his eighth decade as youthful as ever, with help from YouTube star Joe Sugg and a panel of young readers
Yaa Gyasi: ‘Toni Morrison blew away everything I thought I knew about literature’
The bestselling novelist on tackling her to-be-read pile during the pandemic, crying over Natasha Trethewey, and not finishing Ulysses
Norton Juster obituary
Author who created a world of wordplay in the children’s classic The Phantom Tollbooth
A Nobel winner turns to picture books: ‘It is a powerful, primeval way of telling a story’
The Lost Soul, by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, is a quiet meditation on happiness, following a busy man who loses his soul
Victor Ambrus obituary
Prolific illustrator of archaeological scenes for Time Team on Channel 4 and of books, particularly for children
Dr Seuss ‘cancelled’? There’s nothing new about cutting racism from children’s books
Pundits up in arms about removing offensive tropes from his books forget this is part of a long tradition, from Mary Poppins to Nancy Drew
Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, dies aged 91
The US author was beloved for his pun-filled bestseller following a bored boy who drives into a magical kingdom, and for The Dot and the Line
Naomi Klein: ‘We shouldn’t be surprised that kids are radicalised’
With How to Change Everything, the activist has written her first book for young people. She explains how she has been inspired by a new, very young generation of protesters
Dr Seuss’s legacy of kindness has only been bolstered by his estate’s decision
We make changes to children’s books all the time. It’s important to ask: does the cultural value of this book outweigh the potential harm?