Alex Wheatle wins 2016 Guardian children’s fiction prize
Author who says his time in jail inspired his love of literature triumphs with Crongton Knights, set on a fictitious inner-city estate
Curious George loses his home: world’s only store to be closed down
New building owners plan to replace Massachusetts store dedicated to playful fictional monkey with a stairwell, as customers and enthusiasts push back
Hundreds of US children’s authors sign pledge to tackle racism and xenophobia
Declaration on website the Brown Bookshelf has been signed by more than 400 writers and illustrators in 48 hours, including Jacqueline Woodson and Daniel José Older
Poop, peepee and creepy rabbits: kids’ books that should never become movies
Not all children’s books are heartwarming and inspirational. Here are five that ought never to get near a film camera
Zana Fraillon on writing about refugee children: ‘Their resilience keeps hope alive’
In our series by authors shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction award, Fraillon explains how a drawing by a child at an Australian refugee detention centre inspired The Bone Sparrow
Brian Selznick: ‘I wanted my story to exist between pictures and words’
In this latest piece from writers shortlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction prize, Selznick explains the visual storytelling of The Marvels
Karin Nyman: My mother Astrid Lindgren, and the night I named Pippi Longstocking
The celebrated author’s daughter recalls Sweden during wartime, and the night she came up with the name for one of children’s literature’s great heroines
Tanya Landman: ‘The MPs’ expenses scandal breathed life into history’
In the second of a series by writers shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction award, Landman explains how Hell and High Water came about
How to get your boy reading
Boys are generally less enthusiastic than girls to spend their time reading – but all they need are a few bookworm male role models
Paddington Bear to star in TV cook show in new Michael Bond book
Paddington’s Finest Hour, a new title in the 90-year-old author’s much-loved series, brings fresh misadventures for the much loved children’s hero
Writing YA fiction requires new skillsets: slang dates more swiftly than X Factor winners
In the first of a series by authors shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction award, Alex Wheatle, AKA The Brixton Bard, explores the difficulties of dialogue-driven fiction, and the challenge of writing his shortlisted novel Crongton Nights
Peter Jackson to produce film based on Mortal Engines books
Lord of the Rings director will write and produce, while his longtime protege Christian Rivers will direct adaptation of steampunk fantasy series
Twenty-three UK authors in running for 2017 Astrid Lindgren memorial award
Shirley Hughes and Malorie Blackman are among the nominees for the world’s largest children’s literature prize, won in May of this year by Meg Rosoff
Guardian children’s fiction prize 2016 shortlist announced
Historical and contemporary fiction go head-to-head as UK authors Tanya Landman and Alex Wheatle vie with US writer Brian Selznick and Australian Zana Fraillon for the only children’s book award judged by children’s authors
Richard Roxburgh takes to a new stage: writing and illustrating a children’s book
Actor takes great delight in moving from the debauched barrister Rake to supersonic farts and smelly old ladies in Artie and the Grime Wave