Which books can help me understand what it’s like to be bombed?

As our politicians decide whether to bomb Syria, the Book Doctor picks out books that help us understand what it’s like to be threatened by bombs, from Robert Westall’s The Machine Gunners to Joe Sacco’s Palestine

Becca Fitzpatrick: ‘As a teen, I was in love with Heathcliff. As an adult, he terrifies me’

The queen of YA smoulder talks to site member Lottie is Dottie about her love of Wuthering Heights, her new book Dangerous Lies and how glad she is to have the old journals she kept in high school

Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland 150 years on

As the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is celebrated, we look at the life of Lewis Carroll through the Guardian and Observer archives

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke – review

RooReviews: ‘They have many adventures that are scary’

Oscar Sabini’s Paper Zoo – video!

Watch paper come alive before your eyes in this charming mini-film

How to cope with writer’s block

Author Angie Sage doesn’t really believe in writer’s block except as a roundabout way of admitting you’ve run out of ideas. Here are her top tips on how to get started again!

Goosebumps stories adapted into ‘spine-tingling’ immersive performance

RL Stine’s bestselling children’s horror stories will be presented in abandoned railway tunnels beneath Waterloo station in London

Can reading fiction prepare us for tragedy?

The lives of children and teens are full of inappropriate subject matter – so why are we still worried about whether books are suitably sweet enough when we need stories to keep us afloat?

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke – review

Rooreviews: ‘it draws me in so much that I just felt like I was in the book’

From Hunger Games to Harry Potter: would you survive your favourite fandom? – quiz

Imagine if you were whisked from one of your favourite fandoms to another, from Panem to Hogsmeade, from Camp Half Blood to a zombie-ravaged London. Would you survive? Put yourself in the place of your favourite heroes, answer these questions - and find out if you’d survive in your favourite worlds…

David Almond: Orpheus helped me write A Song for Ella Grey

The winner of the 2015 Guardian children’s fiction prize on the ancient legend that inspired his novel

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven – review

Read Hannah Mulcahy’s Guardian young critics 2015 award-winning review

Seventy-Two Virgins by Boris Johnson – review

90skids: ‘I think that what makes the book so special and amusing is the fact that it is mocking everyone’

Invite only: step into Oliver Jeffers’ secret art society

He’s best known as an illustrator, but Jeffers also paints portraits – though you have to get access to a secret ceremony to see them, and after a few fleeting moments he dips them in paint so they are concealed forever

‘All grown-ups were once children’: the 15 top Le Petit Prince quotes

Our favourite lines from the eternal question mark that is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, one of France’s most famous and well-loved books