Oxford English Dictionary adds new entries: chuddies, jibbons and fantoosh
An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of Scottish insults after the dictionary crowdsourced regional terms
Do it yourshelf: the Jakarta libraries with book nooks on tuk-tuks
Inventive Indonesians are coming up with new ways to get scarce reading materials into the hands of youngsters
‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue
The long read: While I was growing up in Nigeria, my parents deliberately never spoke their native Igbo language to us. But later it became an essential part of me
Why reading aloud is a vital bridge to literacy
Advice that children should still be read to as teenagers makes sense, as they learn the complex gear changes between speech and prose
Readers’ World Book Day costumes – from the Cat in the Hat to Mr Tickle
Here are some of the characters you told us about after late nights on the sewing machine
Campaigners warn of ‘book poverty’ as UK celebrates World Book Day
Tom Watson, deputy Labour party leader, condemns fall in library borrowing as a ‘scandal’, as organisers encourage parents and children to make use of free book token
Set the children free – show them the joy of reading for reading’s sake
To slip the confines of reality for 15 or 20 minutes is a superpower too few of our schools are nurturing, asks Guardian columnist Lola Okolosie
Give older children story time to halt fall in young readers, urge experts
Publisher Egmont says steep decline in parents reading to children – who thereby learn to read for pleasure – is ‘a significant threat to their wellbeing’
Benjamin Lee obituary
Other lives: Dedicated doctor and accomplished musician
Simon Norton obituary
Mathematical prodigy and brilliant problem solver who was the subject of The Genius in My Basement
Eric Dunning obituary
Other lives: Sociologist and authority on the subject of aggression and excitement in sport
Swansea University announces ‘decolonised’ English course
In tune with calls to study fewer dead white males, university announces new module focused on ‘hyper-contemporary’ International Dylan Thomas prize
Book clinic: what’s likely to impress an English literature admissions tutor?
Philip Hensher suggests some great novelists, from GK Chesterton to VS Naipaul, who aren’t on the curriculum
John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing review – oddball or visionary?
The influential critic, social reformer and troubled genius profoundly changed British culture. In his 200th anniversary year, can this exhibition help us see him clearly?
‘Pretty aint it … Mrs Yonge said so’: the changing face of teaching poetry
An exhibition in Cambridge shows how poems have been taught to GCSE students down the decades – with pupils’ own textbook annotations included