Dodger by Terry Pratchett – review
BMDH: 'It's a 335 page book that is brilliantly written with awesome wordplay'
Horribly Hilarious Joke Book by Terry Deary – review
Rider: 'It is the best joke book I have ever read'
Demon Dentist by David Walliams – review
Frank_atkinson7: 'Full of made up words and hilarious jokes, it is definitely the book for you!'
Poem: Decorating the Tree, written for London’s Trafalgar Square Christmas tree
Read Decorating the Tree, a poem writtne by children, poets and Kevin Crossley-Holland to celebrate the lighting of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree in London
Your stories: On giving up by TheBookThief
TheBookThief: 'i will work for you, for the girl in the corner with the book'
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review
Safah: 'This story had a fairy tale feel that taught one to always have faith'
Meet the new Harry Potter artist, Jim Kay
Jim Kay, the Carnegie medal-winning illustrator of Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls, has been chosen to illustrate all seven Harry Potter books in full colour and design the new book jacket image. He explains how he'll tackle the commission and why it was accompanied by 'an implosion of brain-freezing terror'
Bear Grylls’s top 10 adventure stories
Adventurer and chief scout Bear Grylls chooses his favourite tales of survival and bravery, from Daniel Defoe to Michael Morpurgo
Reader reviews roundup
YOUR REVIEWS: More top secret diaries this week, as we peer into the worlds of dorks, undead detectives, and one dollar horses
Kaspar Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo – review
Rider: 'This is a story of a brave young boy who risked his life for a cat, on the Titanic...'
More Bloody Horowitz by Anthony Horowitz – review
BMDH: 'WARNING: you will be scared, don't read this book before bed'
How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell – review
Rider: 'If you haven't discovered the crazy but awesome series of How to Train your Dragon you are missing out'
Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion by Alexander McCall Smith – review
Lady Abigail: 'I like this book because although it is a fiction book it actually tells you facts too'
The Story of Don Juan by Alessandro Baricco – review
Firebird: 'it is a gorgeous book, it's just a shame that the writing does not live up to the beauty of the book itself'
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'