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Teen books

July 2024

  • Hot Dog by Doug Salati

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

    A frazzled dachshund; a rebellious goatherd; standing up to your family; a dystopian vision of marriage and more

May 2024

  • Morris Gleitzman

    Walk with ...
    Morris Gleitzman: ‘In the last couple of years, I’ve found it is getting a lot harder to be optimistic’

    The amiable grandfather of Australian letters talks climate change, the mystery of the muse and the uncertain nature of life

December 2023

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    2023 in Culture
    The best children’s and YA books of 2023

    From a bear who stockpiles dreams to a sisterhood of knights via a tiger sea captain, our critics pick their favourite titles for children and young adults

October 2023

  • ‘Why? I’m not Roald Dahl’ … Michael Morpurgo in Iddesleigh.

    ‘A secret no one talked about’: Michael Morpurgo on discovering his real father – and hating Spielberg’s War Horse

    As he turns 80, the prolific children’s author takes us on a tour of his Devon village, to talk about family bombshells, the burning of Joan of Arc – and finally getting a film adaptation he likes

August 2023

  • ‘My mum would have loved Shirley Temple as a daughter. She got me, looking gormless’ … Jacqueline Wilson.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love

    Raised by a ‘scary’ father and a ‘terrible snob’ of a mother, the Tracy Beaker author has always understood the loneliness that marks so many young lives. But at 77, she’s never been happier

May 2023

  • The Chalk Garden.

    Children's book roundup
    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

April 2023

  • A child explores the ceramic frieze depicting Ukrainian fairytales by Ukrainian artist Olga Rapay-Markish in the National Library for Children in Kyiv.

    Dogger to the rescue: how my mother’s books brought joy to the children of Ukraine

  • Film cast and crew with Judy Blume

    Judy Blume: book banning now much worse in US than in 1980s

March 2023

  • Where the River Takes Us Art Jacket Lesley Parr

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

    A pair of historical novels focus on different aspects of the 70s, while gender identity is a theme in an array of strong new adventures

January 2023

  • There's Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah by Tom Nicoll (Author), Ross Collins (Illustrator)

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

  • Adiba Jaigirdar, author, press photo from Hachette

    Young adult books roundup – reviews

December 2022

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    Best books 2022
    Best children’s and YA books of 2022

    Journeys through music, history, magic and more, plus the standout books for young adults

October 2022

  • Malorie Blackman photographed at the Waterstone's Bookshop in Bromley, South London. Malorie Blackman is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism. Her book New Windmills Spring sold out within a week of publishing it. In 2022, Malorie Blackman was chosen as winner of the PEN Pinter Prize, becoming the first writer of children's and Young Adult books to receive the accolade.

    Books interview
    Malorie Blackman: ‘Thank God that’s done!’

  • Lenny Henry's head five times, looking out from behind yellow curtains above a turquoise floor

    Lenny Henry on his roaring 60s, writing for kids and facing Lord of the Rings trolls: ‘They sit in their pants, slagging off anything different’

August 2022

  • Jean-Jacques Sempé

    Le Petit Nicolas illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé dies aged 89

    Sempé co-created much-loved French children’s books that have sold more than 15m copies worldwide

June 2022

  • Author Melinda Salisbury photographed in central London, 15 March 2017

    Young adult books round-up – reviews

    The highs and lows of first-love relationships, modern-day mythology and summer escapism are among this month’s pick of teenage fiction

May 2022

  • Seed by Caryl Lewis

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

    Marcus Rashford channels Scooby-Doo, more girls solve mysteries, while two historical young Black Britons join forces in theatreland

April 2022

  • AF Steadman, author of the Skandar Smith novels.

    ‘Life is short, so you have to get on with it’: AF Steadman on unicorns, leaving law and her record-breaking book deal

    Eight years after her vision of a mythical beast, the author is about to publish the first novel in the Skandar Smith trilogy. She talks about childhood and taking a chance on a dream career

December 2021

  • Marcus Rashford

    Books interview
    Marcus Rashford: ‘My life was far from a fairytale’

    The England footballer, author and poverty campaigner on instilling self-belief in pupils at his old school, his favourite titles of 2021, and his hopes for his book club

October 2021

  • Roger Boore

    Other lives
    Roger Boore obituary

    Other lives: Welsh-language publisher and author who founded the Welsh publishing house Dref Wen
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