Adventure books (children and teens)
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books
Estranged friends navigate a sleeping world, a boy discovers he is part-alien, and the hunt for a missing mother touches lightly on mental health issues
Kitty Empire
23, Aug, 2022 @8:00 AM
'Thank goodness they made Jim Hawkins a lady!' Patsy Ferran on Treasure Island
As the National Theatre’s 2014 staging of the classic adventure is streamed online, its star remembers her breakthrough year
Interview by Chris Wiegand
14, Apr, 2020 @4:28 PM
Fiction for older children reviews: from sleuths to woolly mammoths
Gripping yarns spring from a submerged city, desperate street life and the jungles of Sri Lanka
Kitty Empire
10, Mar, 2020 @9:00 AM
Fiction for older children reviews: flying puns and dangerous games
Fowl play with the brothers of Artemis, a risky dream game and a Russian bear-girl mystery
Kitty Empire
24, Sep, 2019 @8:00 AM
Book clinic: can you recommend adventure novels for adults?
Tales of derring-do for the grown-ups
Andrew Martin
07, Sep, 2019 @5:00 PM
Gripping refugee tale wins Waterstones children's book prize
Anti-trafficking campaigner Onjali Q Raúf was inspired to write adventure story The Boy at the Back of the Class by a Syrian mother and baby she encountered in a Calais camp
Alison Flood
22, Mar, 2019 @3:17 PM
I found all my childhood heroes in fantasy novels | Yassmin Abdel-Magied
My Sudanese grandmother couldn’t fathom why I read books full of dragons and danger but in them I saw the person I could be
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
05, Mar, 2019 @10:45 PM
Fiction for older children reviews – many happy book returns
With a host of popular characters back this autumn, picking up from where you left off has rarely been more fun
Kitty Empire
24, Sep, 2018 @7:00 AM
Domestic dramas are crowding out adventures, warn children's book prize judges
Entries for this year’s Branford Boase prize show a preponderance of inward-looking family stories at the expense of more outward-bound storytelling, say judges
Alison Flood
03, May, 2018 @5:00 AM
Dare YOU face the orcs? 80s game books Fighting Fantasy return
The role-playing adventure books sold 20m copies in the 80s, before being eclipsed by video games. Now they’re back with a new story by Charlie Higson, can they captivate the web generation?
Alison Flood
04, Apr, 2018 @11:21 AM
Fiction for older children reviews – tales of the cities
London and New York both feature strongly in stories from both sides of the pond, while Room author Emma Donoghue makes her children’s fiction debut
Kitty Empire
23, Jul, 2017 @7:00 AM
Tilly and the Time Machine by Adrian Edmondson review – journey of discovery
The actor’s tale about a seven-year-old chasing her dad through history is engaging and insightful
Sarah Donaldson
30, May, 2017 @8:00 AM
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