My favourite book as a kid: Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn
Rhik Samadder is still moved by the story of a precocious foundling and a teenager exploring London’s East End and spiritual life
My favourite book as a kid: The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Their fantastically detailed illustrations and breathless plots awoke me to books as a child. Today they’re a tonic for ‘literary’ nonsense
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi review – time-travel adventure
An engaging autistic 12-year-old is the heroine of this eco-thriller that marks poet Agbabi’s debut for young readers
Tomie dePaola obituary
Children’s author and illustrator whose Strega Nona books delighted generations of readers
My favourite book as a kid: Sabriel by Garth Nix
The author of the bestselling Bone Season novels rereads the book that first showed her fantasy could make room for the heroic female
‘Thank goodness they made Jim Hawkins a lady!’ Patsy Ferran on Treasure Island
As the National Theatre’s 2014 staging of the classic adventure is streamed online, its star remembers her breakthrough year
My favourite book as a kid – Tintin: The Shooting Star by Hergé
Despite some dodgy politics, this is an ingenious riff on international rivalry and has an inspiring friendship at its core
‘Weird tale’ by Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett discovered
Christmas in the Fog, written for adults, is to be republished in Queens of the Abyss, an anthology of lost stories
My favourite book as a kid: Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
Dating from long before Harry Potter, this story of young magicians’ adventures still enchants
Ice caves, orcas and eating blubber: how Michelle Paver returned to the stone age
A decade after finishing the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, the author is continuing her bestselling series – and explains how she found it again
Malory Towers review – midnight feasts and horrid sneaks make for a ripping Blyton yarn
The CBBC adaptation of Enid Blyton’s boarding-school classic bowls along so smoothly and sweetly, it’s hard not to love it
My favourite book as a kid: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
Kicking off a series where writers revisit the book they loved most as a child, Sam Leith returns to a ‘sinister’ classic
Book clinic: which books help kids with Asperger’s to understand others?
Award-winning children’s book writer Jasbinder Bilan picks tales of exploration and empowerment
Jacqueline Wilson: ‘I’ve never really been in any kind of closet’
The children’s author talks about her latest, perhaps bravest, novel in which she tackles gay love for the first time – and shines a light on her own private life
Jacqueline Wilson reveals publicly that she is gay
Her long partnership with Trish is ‘old news’ to those who know her, but announcing Love Frankie, her new gay love story, she has chosen to tell readers