I feel like this year I've read far fewer of the newly released middle grade books - I think I've read more grown-up books this year...

After playing with traditional tales and creating my own twisted versions, including Little Red, Rapunzel and Hansel & Gretel, I deci...

An extract from Chris Riddell's latest book 'Guardians of Magic', the first book in the new 'The Cloud Horse Chronicles'...

I remember very clearly when my love affair with Jane Austen began. It was the summer between fifth and sixth year of high school, when I ...

Cerrie Burnell (of CBeebies fame), author of picturebook 'Snowflakes' and 2016 World Book Day special 'Harper and the Sea of S...

I had the immense pleasure and privilege of putting together a list of some of the best primary children's books of 2018. I ended up ...

This isn't just another football book to hook reluctant boys into reading. And it most certainly isn't a poor spin-off of the Roy ...

Reading for pleasure is all the rage in schools, but how often do we, and the children we teach, read for displeasure? Or, perhaps more a...

I asked Amy Wilson, author of Snowglobe , which children's books most inspired her own writing. Fantasy fiction seems to be an evergr...

When a girl's already swirling world is shaken even further she discovers a world of magic that had been hidden from her, and for ver...

Tania Unsworth, author of the wonderful The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was A Mermaid describes the process she goes through when writing ...

Funny books. That's what our children get these days when they move off the reading scheme books at school and begin to read whole ch...

I'm just going to come right out and say it: this is a perfectly told story which twists fantasy into reality in an oh-so satisfying ...

There are many, many retellings and rehashings of popular traditional fairy tales, but this isn't one of them. Children who love fair...

There's not been a prominent children's novel set in Egypt for a while, so when I heard that Emma Carroll's latest book was t...

Two of my daughters (year 1 and year 3 currently) became instafans of Chris Riddell's Ottoline character after I picked up a hardback...

It's no wonder these international bestsellers are being republished. There's something special about them; perhaps something mag...

Last year for Empathy Day , organised by Empathy Lab UK , I recommended 6 books that encourage children to read for empathy : 'The Un...