Discovering the Imagine festival
Site member Patrick rounds up some of the delights on offer at the children's festival Imagine this half-term
Should there be an Enid Blyton festival?
Head to head: Anthony Mealing and Gabriel Gbadamosi debate the merits of a planned festival celebrating the controversial children's author
Pants in fiction – quiz
Don't you just love pants? Aren't they just really funny? Well if you love pants just as much as we do then have a go at our pants in fiction quiz and test your pants knowledge
My Funny Family by Chris Higgins – review
Emily and Maisy: 'Maisy has this to say: "Funny and a bit bonkers"'
Imagine festival site takeover!
As the Imagine children's festival gets into its stride for half term week, the Imagine children's panel - the Festival Ideas Cloud - have guest curated the Guardian children's books site!
The Twits by Roald Dahl – review
Aisha's Craft Hands: 'this book is one of a kind, if I had enough copies I would give it out to the whole of the town!'
Michaela Strachan’s top 10 animal encounters
From diving with great white sharks and doing polar bear dentistry to outspitting cobras and snogging a hummingbird, the presenter of The Really Wild Show shares her top animal adventures
Your stories: The Great Fire of London by SuperBen – poem
The Great Fire of London, as imagined by SuperBen
Enter Philip Ardagh’s Valentine’s Day limerick competition!
Can you write a Valentine's limerick inspired by an opening line written by Philip Ardagh? Send us your romantic rhymes for the chance to win signed copies of his new book The Truth About Love
London Children’s Bookswap returns
Live in or near London and fancy a free book? Get swapping!
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman – review
Bobby: 'It is really good because the story has lots of people in it and it is really funny'
Joanna Nadin’s top 10 laugh-out-loud reads for 5-8-year-olds
From classic funny writers Roald Dahl and Dr Seuss to newer kids on the block Andy Stanton and Lauren Child, the Penny Dreadful author picks her top side-splitting reads
The Book Bunch – group review selection
The Book Bunch make their brilliant debut with a fantastically funny look at some howlingly humorous and true to life books. They whizz back in time to 1966, discover gravity and gravy, tackle bullying in Norway, encounter brainiac Oliver Fibbs, and enter mysterious worlds where they find, a baby angel, and a girl called Ghostyshocks! Intrigued ... read on!
Horrid Henry’s Sports Factbook by Francesca Simon – review
'One of the facts was that the word gymnastics comes from the Greek word meaning naked!'