Children and teenagers
Librarians sue Arkansas state over law banning them from giving ‘obscene’ books to children
Move comes as rightwing groups increase pressure to remove books, most written by or about members of the LGBTQ+ community and people of colour
Sarah Shaffi
31, May, 2023 @12:45 PM
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books
A tale of folklore and magic from Angie Thomas, a hidden land of nature’s wonders and a town full of werewolf children are among the highlights this month
Kitty Empire
30, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
A concrete garden; a funny, uncompromising portrait of disability; an epic of ancient Greece; and the pick of new YA fiction
Imogen Russell Williams
26, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
Travis Alabanza and Danielle Jawando win 2023 Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Judges described None of the Above, Alabanza’s memoir about being genderqueer, as ‘desperately important’, and said every teenager should read Jawando’s young adult novel When Our Worlds Collided
Sarah Shaffi
25, May, 2023 @6:45 PM
Winnie-the-Pooh book teaches Texas kids to ‘run, hide, fight’ in a shooting
Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, was sent home in backpacks of children
Ed Pilkington in New York
25, May, 2023 @11:57 AM
Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit story originated in African folktales, expert argues
The unacknowledged debt Potter owed to the Brer Rabbit stories told by enslaved Africans deserves to be recognised, says scholar
Lucy Knight
19, May, 2023 @11:21 AM
Illustrated children’s biography of King Charles hits No 1 on UK book chart
Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara’s book, illustrated by Matt Hunt, is the first of the Little People, Big Dreams series to top the standings
Ella Creamer
05, May, 2023 @9:57 AM
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
A war between fruit and veg; a colourful study of germs; the world’s most badly behaved fairy; a masterful ghost story from the late Marcus Sedgwick; and more
Imogen Russell Williams
28, Apr, 2023 @11:00 AM
Children read almost 25% more books last year, UK and Ireland study finds
What Kids Are Reading report found communities on sites such as TikTok helped stimulate interest in reading
Jamie Grierson
24, Apr, 2023 @11:01 PM
Calls to ban books hit highest level ever recorded in the US
Demands to censor, most often for gender themes or sexual detail, rose 38% year on year in 2022, with Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe being last year’s ‘most challenged’ title
Sarah Shaffi
24, Apr, 2023 @3:26 PM
Kate Saunders obituary
Prize-winning novelist who won the Costa award for Five Children on the Western Front and whose Belfry Witches stories were adapted for TV
Amanda Craig
24, Apr, 2023 @11:42 AM
Peter Usborne obituary
Publisher whose eponymous company changed the face of children’s nonfiction with its fact-filled illustrated books
Julia Eccleshare
14, Apr, 2023 @3:02 PM
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