Extract from Hunger Games prequel sparks anger among fans
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes returns to Panem, but gives dictator Coriolanus Snow a starring role
Ballet Shoes gets 21st-century update from Carrie Hope Fletcher
Noel Streatfeild’s children’s classic about orphaned sisters preparing for a life on the stage is being reimagined by the writer, actor and internet star
A Pushkin theme park? How about Discworld World, StephenKingLand …
After many children’s book attractions, an ‘immersive experience’ based on the poet’s fairytales is planned in Russia. Isn’t it time for more adult resorts?
Jacqueline Woodson: ‘It’s important to know that whatever moment we’re in, it’s not the first time’
With more than 30 children’s books to her name and Judy Blume and the Obamas as fans, the US bestseller has written a book for adults. She explains why
Pippi Longstocking: can the world’s strongest girl conquer Britain?
Karin Nyman tells Richard Orange of her hopes that a new film and musical will lead another generation of readers to her mother’s subversive heroine
Jonathan Coe wins Costa prize for ‘perfect’ Brexit novel
Middle England’s EU referendum story secures the 2019 novel award and goes up against first fiction, poetry and biography for Costa book of the year
Me … review – Emma Dodd’s plucky penguin waddles into the big world
A chick finds its feet in this gentle puppet adaptation of the popular book, aimed at children aged two to five
Top 10 books about new beginnings
From Virginia Woolf to Lorrie Moore and Diana Wynne Jones, fresh starts provide an endless source of inspiration for fiction
Michael Rosen: ‘Stories hung in the air about great-aunts and uncles who’d gone’
Searching for the missing pieces in his family brought poet and author Michael Rosen closer to the horror of war
Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels
Wandering wolves, wild grannies and an angel on Paradise Street, a tribute to the titans of black history and more
‘He’s the Roger Moore of tigers!’ – how The Tiger Who Came to Tea came to TV
The children’s classic has been turned into a flagship Christmas animation for Channel 4. Our writer takes his two-year-old behind the scenes at the studio seeking to capture its furry magic
Me, Mum and Dogger: the return of a children’s classic
At 92, Shirley Hughes has written a Christmas sequel to her enduring tale of a lost toy. Her son, who is the real Dogger’s owner, tells all…
Raymond Briggs: ‘Everything takes so bloody long when you’re old’
The Snowman author has always looked hard truths and bogeymen in the eye. He talks about his frank new illustrated memoir, Time for Lights Out
TS Eliot would not have minded Cats reviews, says his estate
Original author ‘liked to have his head blown’ and would have seen the funny side of film’s terrible reception, says spokesperson
Giraffes Can’t Dance review – swing of the jungle
An adaptation of Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees’s bestseller loses some of the grace of the picturebook despite a moonlit acrobatic ending