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Children
Amanda Craig looks at how two children’s books tackle poverty and war
Two Good Thieves; City of Ghosts
Summer reading: children's books
The Sunday Times review by Nicolette Jones: a piglet on a boat and a saxophone-playing armadillo are just two of the stars in our selection for...
Eating Things on Sticks by Anne Fine
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Amanda Craig reviews children's fiction about fairies
Millie’s Marvellous Hat by Satoshi Kitamura
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Children interview their new laureate, Anthony Browne
A group of fearless young critics quiz their new champion about primates and picture-books
Why Le Petit Nicolas is France's favourite schoolboy
The hero of every French child turns 50 but refuses to grow up
Children’s Laureate: I want everybody to doodle
Anthony Browne, the illustrator and author unveiled as successor to Michael Rosen, believes in the power of illustration
What happened to all the heroes?
It’s time we updated our thoroughly Victorian view of what makes a hero. Here's a book that might help us
Amanda Craig celebrates 1960s children's illustrator John Burningham
Six childrens books that show dads in a positive light
There are plenty of positive male role models on the literary market... you just have to know where to look for them
Six childrens classics that do dads down
These much-loved titles tell kids that fathers are busy, distracted and upstaged by hands-on mothers
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
The Sunday Times review by Nicolette Jones
Kenneth Oppel: The Times interview
The Children’s author tells Amanda Craig that his storytelling skill is the result of years of gaming
Asylum seeker wins UK schools poetry contest
An Iranian boy who didn't speak any English seven years ago beat 1,500 children to come first in a national competition
Author, 9, sets Spanish literary world alight
How Tolkien inspired the boy from Spain to write his own fantasy book and become one of the youngest novelists in the world
The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner
The Sunday Times review by Nicolette Jones
Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
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Dido by Adele Geras
Warriors of Ethandun by N.M.Browne
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