Book clinic: which books help kids with Asperger’s to understand others?
Award-winning children’s book writer Jasbinder Bilan picks tales of exploration and empowerment
Fiction for older children reviews: from sleuths to woolly mammoths
Gripping yarns spring from a submerged city, desperate street life and the jungles of Sri Lanka
Quentin Blake: ‘Spend time with children? Good God, no’
The writer and illustrator talks about bringing some of the most cherished children’s characters to life, his work with Roald Dahl and Michael Rosen – and the tiny weed that inspired his latest book
Roslyn Poignant obituary
Anthropologist, researcher and writer who became an expert on historic photographs
David Cardwell obituary
Other lives: Leader in brand licensing in the UK, whose work built on the childhood memories of generations
David Baddiel: children’s fiction needs more wheelchair whizzkids
Disability featured prominently in only one title for young readers in the last 12 months’ top 100 bestsellers, research shows
Fiction for older children reviews: flying puns and dangerous games
Fowl play with the brothers of Artemis, a risky dream game and a Russian bear-girl mystery
‘They just wanted us to read about a white boy and his dog’: why teenager Marley Dias fought back
She was 10 when she first decided to distribute children’s books with black girl leads – a campaign that has taken her to the White House. Now she’s written a book of her own
Metallica to publish children’s book, The ABCs of Metallica
Illustrated book tells the history of the metal band, and will benefit their charity All Within My Hands
From Greta Thunberg to Sally Morgan: 10 books to help kids come to grips with climate crisis
Introducing younger readers to environmental emergency is a daunting task. Guardian Australia’s new kids’ books columnist Amelia Lush is here to help
Book clinic: What can I give a child to help them with losing a parent?
Nonfiction and novels to support young people dealing with grief
Tom Gates Live on Stage! review – songs and sketches from the schoolboy doodler
Liz Pichon brings the young hero of her witty books to life in an adaptation that explodes with animations
Why Harry Potter and Paddington Bear are essential reading … for grown-ups
Oxford don champions children’s books as figures show that sales to adults are soaring
Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels
A scruffy puppy’s friendship, a young adventurer’s guide to the wild, poltergeist spooks and scroll down for the best new books for teens
Gripping refugee tale wins Waterstones children’s book prize
Anti-trafficking campaigner Onjali Q Raúf was inspired to write adventure story The Boy at the Back of the Class by a Syrian mother and baby she encountered in a Calais camp