Which superhero are you? Quiz
Feel the urge to fly? Dream of having super-strength? Find out once and for all which superhero you are by taking our super quiz!
Katherine Rundell: ‘There’s a huge amount of joy to be gained from learning to steer towards fear’
The award-winning author of Rooftoppers has just published a new book set in the snowbound woods of Russia: The Wolf Wilder. Site member Lottie Longshanks got to ask Katherine Rundell about bravery, ballet, the Russian revolution and wolves
Your stories: A Good Day to be Rich
GeorgeFS: ‘Philip King was worth just over 37 billion dollars. Of course, it wasn’t enough. It never was. In a world where those with the most wealth quite literally made the rules, there was no room for slackers’
Laura Carlin wins the Bratislava children’s books illustration award 2015
In the UK’s first win in 20 years, illustrator Laura Carlin takes the grand prix in the world’s biggest children’s books illustration awards: the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (or BIB for short) 2015 with her books The Iron Man and A World of Your Own
Why young people need to talk about organ donation
Two years ago author Maria Farrer’s nephew lay critically ill in hospital waiting for heart transplant. Now in National Transplant Week, Maria recommends books exploring organ donation and urges everyone to register as a donor
Patrick Ness and his super-author team raise £200,000 for Syrian refugees
Patrick Ness has taken Twitter by storm, raising £200,000 (and counting) for Save The Children’s Syrian refugee crisis fund, with help of fellow authors including John Green, Derek Landy, Rainbow Rowell and David Nicholls
Your mobile phone is killing gorillas
Vet turned bestselling children’s author Gill Lewis reveals how our mobile phones connect all of us to the fate of the gorilla - and how the discovery inspired her novel, Gorilla Dawn
Neil Gaiman: ‘my parents didn’t have any kind of rules about what I couldn’t read’
Neil Gaiman is no stranger to having his books banned. Here the author of Coraline and The Graveyard Book talks about controversial books in libraries, censorship threats to graphic novels and why freedom of speech is not the freedom to harass
Why books are small but dangerous
Nicky Parker from Amnesty International explains how books open up whole wide worlds that some people don’t want us to know about – that’s why they’re censored, banned or removed
Welcome to our ‘dangerous books’ long weekend!
All bank holiday weekend we’re teaming up with Amnesty International to explore ‘dangerous books’ – these may be books that have been banned by governments or religious leaders because they are thought to contain dangerous or wrong ideas, or books that give people the strength to live their lives differently, or reads that are considered too scary, corrupting or just plain unsuitable for young minds and are taken out of school libraries or confined to the unreachable tops of family bookshelves (to be read in secret). Here’s what we’ve got planned
Banned, burned, or simply life changing: what are the best dangerous books?
Authors including Patrick Ness, Melvin Burgess, Tanya Landman, Louise O’Neill, Bali Rai, Candy Gourlay, James Dawson and Leigh Bardugo share the books they probably weren’t meant to read that either rocked their world or rocked the world
Robin Stevens’s top 10 crime capers
The author of the Murder Most Unladylike series picks her favourite sleuthing stories, from Sherlock Holmes to Sally Lockhart
Top 10 modern classics to read before you’re 10
Author Mary Sebag Montefiore got everyone going when she shared her favourite classic books - so we’ve come up with our own list of fantastic modern classics that we think will be read for centuries to come
Six of the best Enid Blyton quotes
Enid Blyton was born 118 years ago today. Celebrate her birthday by remembering her most famous lines
Which books can help us after the killing of Cecil the lion?
After the heartbreaking death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, the Book Doctor recommends children’s books that explore the complexities of conservation and the threats to the natural world