Children’s author Cressida Cowell scoops philosophers’ award for fight against stupidity
How to Train Your Dragon author joins Noam Chomsky and Raymond Tallis as winner of Philosophy Now prize after encouraging ‘deep reflection’ in young readers
Sherry Turkle: ‘I am not anti-technology, I am pro-conversation’
In the social media age, we know how to connect: but are we forgetting how to talk to each other? Leading psychologist Sherry Turkle wants to fight back
The Ladybird book of living with your parents your whole life
Ladybird books have launched a spoof series for modern-day adult problems. Here’s the story of how Peter and Jane fare when they grow up
The Jewish story, the Arab story … and a plan by Mr Davies
After a trip to Israel and the West Bank, teacher Michael Davies is planning to change the way students learn about the history of the conflict
Maths palace built by calculus ‘rock star’ on sale for £11.4m
James Stewart’s calculus text books made him very rich. He spent his fortune on Integral House, an award-winning architectural marvel inspired by calculus, which is now on sale after he died last year
Classic children’s books on coding reprogrammed for a new generation
Author Lisa Watts, who helped to teach a generation of children about computers a quarter of a century ago, hopes new books will inspire tomorrow’s programmers
Sophie Heawood: Drugs and pigs? Oxford has been underselling itself
‘Had I known that Oxford offered something called a Piers Gaveston party, I’d have reworked my life plans accordingly
Whiteout: new Scottish thesaurus has 421 words for snow
From ‘feefle’ to ‘flindrikin’, Scottish words for the white stuff put longstanding Inuit claim of 50 words for snow in the shade
Sir Anthony Seldon: ‘David Cameron is not a nasty political person who goes for his own short-term advantage’
Sir Anthony Seldon has written books about five British prime ministers. His latest, a study of David Cameron, has already made headlines
Top 10 schoolchildren in fiction
Tales of star pupils, outsiders, bullies and the bullied. From Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, to Piggy in Lord of the Flies, these stories capture the foibles and perils of childhood
Jesse Andrews: high school is just a rough, rough period in one’s life
Site member Confessionsofabooklover got to ask the author about his coming of age novel Me, Earl and the Dying Girl about the trials of high school and how great but terrifying it is that his book has been made into a film
Blinded by technology: has our belief in Silicon Valley led the world astray?
In Geek Heresy, computer expert Kentaro Toyama warns against our over-reliance on technology and explains why people, not smart tools, are the key to social change
Help me trace the book that prompted my political awakening
George Monbiot: In a dusty box in the school sanatorium I found a book that had escaped the censorship of the headmaster. But what was its title?
David Walliams to help launch plans to boost child literacy in UK
Little Britain creator and education secretary Nicky Morgan to announce campaign aimed at creating book clubs in more than 200 primary schools
Kate Taylor obituary
Other lives: Teacher and lecturer who wrote books about her home town of Wakefield