The wit and wisdom of Winnie-the-Pooh
Celebrate the 90th anniversary of AA Milne’s first collection of Winnie-the-Pooh stories with 10 of the best ‘Poohisms’ from Winnie and friends
YA author calls out Run review’s ‘bad’ implications of bisexual character
While the likes of Lionel Shriver complain that censorship comes from the left, a row over Kody Keplinger’s novel proves that is by no means the case
Shaun Tan completes graphic novel after author Mel Tregonning’s suicide: ‘Her absence made me try even harder’
Mel Tregonning’s Small Things tells of a lonely boy, struggling with worry. But the author also had mental health issues, and died before it was finished
Be still my beating heart. My teen heroine is back…
Mary Stewart’s tales of glamorous adventure thrilled this young reader, so a newly unearthed novella is very welcome
Books to give you hope: The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg
This 20-year-old story of sixth graders competing for Academic Bowl glory while learning to champion diversity feels more prescient than ever
Charlie Higson hands Fast Show scripts to UEA literary archive
Young Bond author was going to throw away manuscripts that will now sit alongside works by JD Salinger and Doris Lessing
Brian Wildsmith obituary
Illustrator of children’s picture books whose vivid use of colour became his trademark
Books to give you hope: Z for Zachariah by Robert C O’Brien
A 16-year-old girl’s determination in facing the unknown at the end of the world is testament to the power of hope, and to living rather than just surviving
Moomins and Tintin are great, but where are new translated children’s books?
While we readily pick up books from the Anglosphere, a world of children’s literature in other languages is undiscovered because they have not been translated. Let’s fix that
‘90% of YA is crap’: the debate that dominated the Edinburgh book festival
Tempers flare, but readers continue to queue, as authors struggle to explain what is special about young adult fiction
Books to give you hope: Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Written to create a female hero, this book about hidden magic in the everyday eschews fairy-tale bliss to close with an inconclusive yet brilliant assertion that monsters must be faced together
Children really don’t need a picture-book version of On the Road
Illustrated tales introducing youngsters to ‘iconic works of classic literature’ such as Jack Kerouac’s beatnik adventure are missing the point
Guardian children’s books festival 2016 – what’s on
Join Mog author Judith Kerr, Charlie and Lola creator Lauren Child and other star authors and illustrators at the Unicorn theatre, London on 23 October for a day celebrating the choicest children’s books
Swallows and Amazons book review, 1930 – archive
21 July 1930: The Manchester Guardian reviews Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons
Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance
JK Rowling’s Cursed Child has drawn fire over its story of male friendship, which some readers feel flirts coyly with gay romance – but it is a change from the usual stereotypes