Casey Gerald: ‘Trump may be the most American president we’ve ever had’

From a traumatic childhood in Dallas to Yale, Harvard, Wall Street and beyond, the businessman and author exemplifies the American dream – the very myth his new book sets out to dismantle

Peter Jarvis obituary

Other lives: Emeritus professor of continuing education at the University of Surrey

Valerie Eaton Griffith obituary

Founder of a voluntary scheme that established a path to recovery for stroke patients

How we made Horrible Histories

‘If someone getting wee poured over them helps people learn some facts, we’re doing our job right’

Humiliation, homoeroticism and animal cruelty: inside the frathouse

Photographer Andrew Moisey uncovered ritual hazing, extreme drunkenness and toxic masculinity on one college campus – from men destined to be America’s future leaders

P is for pterodactyl, T is for tsunami: the ‘worst alphabet book’ becomes a bestseller

A picture book dedicated to English’s strangest quirks has made the New York Times bestseller list with the publisher scrambling to reprint. How did the rapper behind it dream it up?

Dear Damian Hinds, please stop wrecking poetry for children

Children are being taught that there are right and wrong answers in poems

‘Toxic’ beats ‘gammon’ and ‘cakeism’ to win Oxford Dictionaries’ word of 2018

Toxic best captures ‘the ethos, mood and preoccupations’ of the year, according to the dictionary

Morris Gleitzman, beloved children’s author, meets his new editors – children

‘It’s hard to select the stories because all of them are so good,’ says a primary student editor of Early Harvest magazine

From Madonna’s Sex to Lady Chatterley: inside the Bodleian’s explicit book club

Created at the height of Victorian prudishness, the Bodleian Library’s Phi collection was designed to protect young minds from ‘immoral’ books. More than a century later, they’re going on display for the first time

Jeff Kinney: ‘Let children read anything; I’ll never say no to a book’

The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series says that in an age of little empathy, it is vital to engage reluctant readers

I can see Odysseus lashed to the mast of this ship, struggling to resist the Sirens’ song

The eerily beautiful wreck discovered in the Black Sea takes us right back to Homer’s Greece

Stephen King sells film rights for story to Welsh teenagers for $1

Horror writer lets Blaenau Gwent Film Academy make version of Stationary Bike

Jumpin’ jets, a woman! Call to update children’s books with female academics

Dr Frankenstinker, Professor Branestawm … How can little girls become academics when all the role models are men?

Dear Damian Hinds, What’s so difficult about giving every child a library ticket?

Yet another report has shown children who read for pleasure are at an advantage. Yet many children still don’t have books