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
Brian Nisbet obituary
Other lives: Careers adviser and published poet who also worked with young people with special needs
Russian region bans British historians’ books from schools
Authorities in Yekaterinburg tell schools to ‘prevent access’ to works by Antony Beevor and John Keegan, claiming they promote Nazi stereotypes
Spanish town set to spend subsidy on books instead of bullfights
Traditional bullfight which costs Villafranca de los Caballeros around €18,000 a year may end after council votes on using fund for school supplies
Bryan Nelson obituary
Ornithologist devoted to studying, filming and writing about seabirds, he became the ‘biographer’ of the gannet
Sheila Whiteley obituary
Emeritus professor who held Britain’s first chair of popular music
Charles Hannam obituary
Other lives: Charismastic teacher and influential author who arrived in Britain on one of the last Kindertransport trains from Germany before the second world war
Romeo and Juliet in Palestine review – Shakespeare under occupation
Tom Sperlinger’s account of teaching English literature to students in the occupied territories is an illuminating look at the wider role of education