Parents demand Aung San Suu Kyi is cut from children’s book of role models

The Myanmar leader should be cut from Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, critics insist

Teenage book reviews – thrills, spills and girl power

A boarding school for self-absorbed artists, a handbook on changing the world, and bright young women standing up to the bullies

Fiction for older children reviews – snow quests, standup and skullduggery

A well-plotted comic quest from Harry Hill, a treat of a seafaring saga, and a Dickensian dystopia in which a fox leaves an orphanage in search of home

Picture books for children reviews – tinselly tales for a child’s Christmas

From Quentin Blake’s Scrooge to Judith Kerr’s new cat Katinka and beyond, picture book present ideas abound…

Winnie-the-Pooh heads to the V&A in London for bear-all exhibition

Scores of ink and pencil drawings will line walls of museum as part of tribute to AA Milne’s much-loved children’s character

Horrors and heart-warmers: Sarah Waters, Mel Giedroyc and more pick great winter’s tales

Mel Giedroyc chooses a Christmas pud whodunnit, Sarah Waters a ghostly spinetingler. Andrew O’Hagan reads a psychic shocker – and Penelope Wilton nabs Winnie the Pooh. But what will Emeli Sandé and Tom Hollander choose?

Willy Wonka to Wind in the Willows: how children’s books reveal inequality

As kids, reading offers an early insight into the forces of class and poverty that can shape our adult lives. Caroline Lucas, Danny Dorling, Nikesh Shukla, Laurie Penny and Juno Dawson share the children’s books that influenced them

Long before Harry Potter, The Box of Delights remade children’s fantasy

Written in 1935, John Masefield’s classic blended ancient magic with modern adventure and set a template for the work of JK Rowling and many others

In her faraway world, Enid Blyton is the Jimi Hendrix of children’s writing

It’s easy to dismiss the Famous Five author, but I’m not surprised she’s getting the Sam Mendes treatment, writes the author Andrew Martin

Novel recipes: rice pudding from La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

The young hero in the first instalment of The Book of Dust has much to lose – Kate Young on a warming dish with all the comforts of home

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman review – a tidal wave of imagination

Philip Pullman revisits his great fictional universe with this captivating first story of a new trilogy, The Book of Dust

John Lewis Christmas ad accused of plagiarism by Mr Underbed author

Chris Riddell points out similarities between Moz the monster and a character from his 1986 picturebook

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green review – dark and complex

Teenager Aza embarks on a mystery and a love story but both are soon derailed by her own anxieties…

Children’s author Oliver Jeffers on explaining the world to his son – one room at a time

The author and illustrator of some of today’s most treasured children’s classics says having his first child shed new light on the world – from saucepans and trees to lunch and shoes –giving him a new sense of wonder

Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers review – a heartfelt hug of a story

Jeffers’s first nonfiction book is a witty, tender introduction to the world for his newborn son