Reader reviews roundup
Autobiographical adventures, adventurous autobiographies, and some pretty adventurous fiction too, including an undead detective. Intrigued? Read on!
Lucy Christopher’s top 10 literary woods
From the hundred-acre wood to the Hunger Games, the author of Stolen separates the wood from the trees and picks her top ten fictional forests
Jack and the Beanstalk and other Beany Stories, Poems and Jokes by Beanstalk Literary Charity – review
Prince Caspian: 'All the stories are by different people, and all with different pictures, but they all have beans in them'
The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees | Book Review
GrrlScientist: An engaging, educational and beautifully-illustrated children's book that explains the unsolved mystery of honeybee colony collapse disorder
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton – review
ChristopherW: 'I really liked this as it was different to other books'
Annabel Pitcher’s top writing tips
The author of My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece and Ketchup Clouds offers her five top tips to aspiring writers
100 books to read before you’re 14: name your favourites
Do you agree with the top 100 books selected for Children's Book Week? Now's your chance to name the ones they've left out
Quickfire interview: Jacqueline Wilson
The author of Tracy Beaker, The Suitcase Kid and Hetty Feather takes on a Guardian children's books quickfire interview with a twist and answers questions from site members
Oliver Fibbs: Attack of the Alien Brain by Steve Hartley – review
Daveybooks: 'Oliver enters a competition to design a new playground. But will he win?'
Adventure Island books by Helen Moss – review
SuperBen: 'I like the Adventure Island books because they are funny and exciting'
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl – review
pinkbookworm: 'Roald Dahl is a man whose stories were crafted with pure genius and that special touch of zaniness that very few are blessed to have'
The Witch of Turlingham Academy by Ellie Boswell
Bella, The Book Bunch: 'Once you've started reading this book, you just can't put it down!'
The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas by David Almond – review
FreddieJF: 'You should read this book because it is very funny and exciting, and there are lots of strange characters'
Holes by Louis sachar – review
googleyeyes:'It's full of adventure and questions and had me up reading for most of the night, desperate to find out what happens'
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy – review
Bookworm1408: 'I have read all eight of the Skulduggery Pleasant books and I think they are amazing'