Geri Halliwell-Horner reveals writing advice she was given by top authors
Ex-Spice Girl tells Hay festival about tips from William Boyd and Jacqueline Wilson for children’s book
January 2024
Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum
Tom Parker Bowles among 21 writers providing snapshot of contemporary literature in initiative supported by the queen
December 2023
Curtain down! See out 2023 with our favourite portraits – in pictures
From Jacqueline Wilson to Rosamund Pike via activists, artists and breakdancers, here’s how we photographed the faces of the year
August 2023
Brief letters
Putting a finger on how to weigh hands
Brief letters: Archimedes’ Principle | Travel travails | Garibaldi biscuits | The great digital divide | Learning history
‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books
Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language
Jacqueline Wilson says rewriting children’s books can be justified
Weekend
Author Jacqueline Wilson, Marina Hyde on Matt Hancock as ‘just Ken’, and is snacking a problem? – podcast
The G2 interview
‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love
May 2022
Jacqueline Wilson: my mother slept with a gun under her pillow
The Q&A
Jacqueline Wilson: ‘How often do I have sex? I’m a children’s writer. We don’t know what sex is’
April 2022
Young adult books round-up – review
Jacqueline Wilson returns with a novel about teen pregnancy, while tales of arranged marriages, a killer super-flu and girls who turn into dragons all impress
January 2022
Jacqueline Wilson is a perfect pick to reinvent Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree
I was spellbound by these stories as a girl, and they have gone on to enchant my children. Who better to renew the magic for a fresh generation?
September 2021
The schoolday I'll never forget
The schoolday I’ll never forget: ‘Our teacher broke all the rules and took us for a wild day out’
My school had any number of petty classroom diktats, and there were severe penalties for naughty children. But one day our nature study teacher decided to break free
April 2021
Children’s laureates campaign for £100m a year to fix primary school libraries
Current laureate Cressida Cowell leads demands to ringfence funds to renew ‘deteriorating’ facilities that fail to appeal to students
August 2020
Now you're talking! The best audiobooks, chosen by writers
Memoirs, mysteries and coming-of-age stories are lifted by a powerful voice – that of a great actor, or the writer in full reveal. Here, 15 artists and critics pick their favourite audiobooks
June 2020
Jacqueline Wilson asks children to join Silly Squad this summer
Tracy Beaker author says theme for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge is reading for fun and asks young readers to pick books that make them happy
May 2020
British Library asks nation's children to write miniature books in lockdown
How we made
How we made The Story of Tracy Beaker
April 2020
Reasons to be cheerful: poetry and stories to give hope to adults and children alike
