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Children and teenagers

June 2026

  • A person in a tan shirt stands facing colorful artwork by Murugiah with geometric shapes and floral patterns

    The Guardian view on the UK’s first centre for illustration: visual literacy, and the sheer joy of images, matter

  • Illustrations from How to make a baby by Anna Fiske

    ‘Nothing is too much for a child’: the Norwegian books for kids tackling taboo topics from IVF to incest

May 2026

  • Quentin Blake illo

    ‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling

    From The Twits to the Gruffalo… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how they bring children’s books to life
  • Australian nonbinary author Jasper Peach

    ‘My body is fat, not wrong’: how body neutrality – not positivity – helped me shed a lifetime of shame

    If I’d been taught this way of thinking as a child, I can’t begin to imagine how much easier things could have been
  • Ban Ban’s Bakery by Elena Hiroko Magee

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    A bunny who loves to bake, illustrated poems about amazing animals and a YA verse novel of dancefloor salvation

April 2026

  • University of Queensland campus in Brisbane

    University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack

  • Michael Rosen sitting at a cafe table in pale shirt with big smile on his face and holding up a small chocolate cake on a white plate with a candle on it.

    The big interview
    ‘Every time I write, I doubt myself’: Michael Rosen at 80 on deep grief, self-belief and chocolate cake

  • Line drawing of Pooh with Christopher Robin, Piglet and Owl

    Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time

  • illustration of books hanging from ceiling mobile

    From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25

March 2026

  • The Adventures of Portly the Otter by MG Leonard, illustrated by Polly Dunbar.interior spread

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

  • Huw Aaron

    Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob wins Waterstones children’s book prize

  • Idris Elba portrait … co-author of a new thriller series.

    London book fair roundup: Idris Elba’s thriller deal, the rise of romcom, and fights against censorship

  • Malorie Blackman in Waterstone's bookshop, Bromley

    The Guardian view on 25 years of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses: a love story that changed an industry

  • Reading opens up the world – with all its pleasures and pains

  • Extra stress or a bit of fun? Teachers and parents discuss World Book Day

  • double quotation markWhy are today’s children’s books and films often so much better than adult ones?

    Catherine Shoard

February 2026

  • The Wonder by Tom Percival.

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

  • Meredith Hooper in her second season in Antartica, 1998-89, at Palmer Station with the American Antarctic Division, and on the US research vessel the Laurence M Gould

    Meredith Hooper obituary

  • Paul Grabovac, Michael Ho and Lucia May in Monkey Baa Theatre’s Where Is The Green Sheep?

    Where Is the Green Sheep? The 190-word picture book that sold millions – and inspired a whole live show

  • Close-up head shot of Andy Griffiths wearing a hat and holding his left hand partially in front of his face, with his eyes - wide - looking between the fingers

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Andy Griffiths: ‘Life is a joyously unhinged, absurd wonderland of possibility’

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