World news | The Guardian‘Pleasure and invigoration’: Diana Evans wins UK’s Jhalak prose prize https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/pleasure-and-invigoration-diana-evans-wins-uks-jhalak-prose-prize #Books #JhalakPrize #DianaEvans #Culture #Race #Poetry #ChildrenAndTeenagers #UkNews #Ireland
Culture | The Guardian USNo fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/peter-pan-christopher-robin-alice-the-unsettling-stories-of-the-children-behind-fictions-most-enduring-tales #Books #Children #ChildrenAndTeenagers #AaMilne #JmBarrie #LewisCarroll #Culture
‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/30/i-am-very-serious-about-being-silly-childrens-illustrators-on-the-art-of-storytelling #ChildrenAndTeenagers #Books #TeenBooks #Illustration #Culture #QuentinBlake
University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/23/uq-press-cancels-childrens-book-university-of-queensland-ntwnfb #BondiBeachTerrorAttack #AustraliaNews #Antisemitism #Queensland #Media #Books #Culture #AustralianMedia #Publishing #ChildrenAndTeenagers #IndigenousAustralians
University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack
Authors including Evelyn Araluen and Melissa Lucashenko say they won’t work with publisher after it dumps Jazz Money’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, who called Bondi victims ‘affluent beneficiaries of imperialism’
Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/16/winnie-the-pooh-book-preliminary-sketches-e-h-shepard #Drawing #ChildrenAndTeenagers #Books #Illustration #Culture #UkNews #AaMilne #Exhibitions #ArtAndDesign #Art
London book fair roundup: Idris Elba’s thriller deal, the rise of romcom, and fights against censorship https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/16/london-book-fair-roundup-idris-elbas-thriller-deal-the-rise-of-romcom-and-fights-against-censorship #LondonBookFair #Publishing #Books #Culture #UkNews #Fiction #AutobiographyAndMemoir #ChildrenAndTeenagers #FantasyBooks #RomanceBooks #Censorship #DeiPolicies #IdrisElba
IndieAuthors.Social NewsThe Guardian view on 25 years of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses: a love story that changed an industry | Editorial
Publishing has failed to deliver on its promises after Black Lives Matter. True diversity requires a lasting shift A World Book Day question: which children’s author is name-checked in Stormzy’s song Superheroes (and appears in the video for Mel Made Me Do It ) and Tinie Tempah’s Written in the Stars? The answer, as a generation of readers will know, is former children’s laureate Malorie Blackman. Her groundbreaking novel, Noughts & Crosses, turns 25 this year. Set in a dystopian Britain (Albion), in which racial hierarchies are reversed, this story of star-crossed lovers was one of the…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/06/the-guardian-view-on-25-years-of-malorie-blackmans-noughts-crosses-a-love-story-that-changed-an-industry
#Publishing #Teenbooks #Childrenandteenagers #Books #MalorieBlackman
Magic Beach by Alison Lester named Australia’s best children’s picture book https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/05/alison-lester-magic-beach-best-australia-children-picture-book #PictureBooks #AustraliaNews #ChildrenAndTeenagers #Books #Culture
‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/13/this-extraordinary-story-never-goes-out-of-fashion-30-authors-on-the-books-they-give-to-everyone #Scienceandnaturebooks #Childrenandteenagers #JeanetteWinterson #RobertMacfarlane #KatherineRundell #KamilaShamsie #MichaelRosen #NikeshShukla #TessaHadley #WilliamBoyd #JonathanCoe #ElifShafak #ColmTóibín #DianaEvans #NinaStibbe #Christmas #MaxPorter
Opinion | The Guardian USHow to buy a book for a child who is a non-reader? The trick is to meet them where they are | Allison Tait https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/gift-kids-book-child-non-reader #Childrenandteenagers #Parentsandparenting #Australianbooks #Literacy #Books
