Asterix and the Picts by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad – review
HighKick and Pirate Bones: 'If you didn't already know this book wasn't written by the same writer then you wouldn't notice the difference'
Children take over the Southbank Centre for mass sleepover
The Imagine festival is back, putting children and storytelling centre stage on London's South Bank with a line-up of authors including Quentin Blake, Jacqueline Wilson and children's laureate Malorie Blackman
Reader reviews roundup
Calling all explorers, adventurers and intrepid investigators! Your reviews are heading into uncharted waters this week (and peeking their noses into some VERY top secret diaries...)
Robin Etherington’s top 10 comic books
The comic book creator picks his favourite graphic novels from the genre's 'oodles of awesomeness' encompassing Asterix to Akira
Emily Feather and the Secret Mirror by Holly Webb – review
Beth - Millenium RIOT Readers: 'I haven't read the first book in this series but I enjoyed this story nonetheless. I liked Emily and the story was pretty good'
Quickfire interview: Mairi Hedderwick
The Scottish author and illustrator, best known for the Katie Morag series of children's picture books set on the Isle of Struay, takes on the Guardian children's books quickfire interview
Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski – review
BookTrain125: 'it did not have all the countries, which was disappointing. Other than that it was fascinating'
Reader reviews roundup
YOUR REVIEWS: Some vile visitors have come a-knocking at the site, and we're turning invisible (and so is JK Rowling!) Haven't a clue what we're on about? Enter this week's reader reviews roundup and find out...
Jessica Ahlberg’s top 10 family-themed picture books
From Sendak's Wild Things and Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit to 'the family-est book of all', Jessica Ahlberg picks her favourite picture books about families in all shapes, sizes and guises
Which pop-up books match up to Jan Pieńkowski’s The Haunted House?
From simple Spot books to volumes of ambitious three-dimensional images, paper engineering can bring both imaginary worlds and more familiar subjects to life
The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig by Emer Stamp – review
RugbyDog: 'it was hilarious and it was spoken in pig language which sounds like a sort of slang'
Children’s Sticker Atlas of the World – review
Raindrop: 'It's an amazing book with loads of brilliant pictures'
Vile Visitors by Diana Wynne Jones – review
Cleopatra 'I would rate this great story 10 out of 10! It made me laugh loads'
The Fabulous Four Fish Fingers by Jason Beresford – review
Velociraptor 'The Fish Fingers show that by working together, not giving up and being brave, they can prevent bad things from happening'