The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell – review
BookieCookie: ‘Katherine Rundell builds up the tension extremely well, with their encounters with the ruthless Rakov keeping you on the edge of your seat’
Poetry secrets: How to read a poem aloud
Poet Paul Cookson orders you to unzip your lips and get poetry off the page and into the air
Michael Rosen reads Oh Dear
Watch Michael Rosen read his new poem ‘Oh Dear’ from A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young
Top 10 poems about light
On National Poetry day, 10 poets picks their favourite poems about light. Read them all here
Michael Rosen reads Boing! Boing!
Watch Michael Rosen read his new poem ‘Boing! Boing!’ from A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young
Gender-swap Twilight should expose the flaws in the original – I can’t wait
Stephenie Meyer’s Life and Death has a mopey teenage boy lusting over a sexy, strong, much older woman. That’s thrillingly subversive
A firefighter, a physicist and a fire dancer read poems about light
Finding a firefighter willing to read a poem was not the easiest task, poet Liz Brownlee found, when she started searching for people whose lives are involved some way in light to be filmed reading poems about light for National Poetry Day. Watch the results of her project in these films
Selina Nwulu, young poet laureate for London: it’s powerful to write about big ideas through human stories
Selina Nwulu, the new young poet laureate for London, sets out her poetry stall for the year ahead - and wants to know your recommendations of poets and poetry
Poetry secrets: how to write a poem on a theme
Poet Roger Stevens reveals his techniques for writing a poem on a specific topic
How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury by Cressida Cowell – review
Myth-hill: ‘I would love to go into my garden and discover a Riproarer or maybe a triple-headed Deadly Shadow’
Which Twilight character are you? – quiz
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Twilight – and the news that Stephenie Meyer has just published a reimagining of Twilight with the gender roles reversed in Life and Death. Are you more Cullen or Swan? vampire or werewolf? Dangerous or docile? Find out in our quiz!
Dyslexia poems by Sally Gardner and Ros Asquith
In Dyslexia Awareness Week we have two beautiful poems, DyslexiaaAAARGH by Ros Asquith and The Box by Sally Gardner (who is herself dyslexic) which explore the frustrations as well as the upsides of dyslexia
Petition demands Maze Runner cast apologise for ‘thefts’ from Native American burial site
More than 28,000 people sign up after Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials star Dylan O’Brien suggests actors took artefacts from New Mexico location
James Dawson: how I stopped hating poetry and became a poet
When teen author James Dawson was growing up he dreaded poetry lessons, but the fuzzy line between songwriting and poetry slowly changed all that – and now he’s finally out of the poetry closet
Michael Rosen reads Angry
Watch Michael Rosen read his new poem ‘Angry’ from A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young