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Although billed as a “modern take” on the children’s classic using a mix of CGI and live-action, the movie will go back to the beginning of the story and explain how the little bear from Darkest Peru was discovered in Paddington Station. It will also keep all of Paddington’s quirks, from his penchant for marmalade [...]

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Read the whole of Michael Morpurgo’s short story, Letter for Carlos, about a soldier writing home to his young son via Letter for Carlos by Michael Morpurgo – short story | Children’s books | guardian.co.uk. » Inline Ad Purchase:  Intext Link

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Kyung-Sook Shin’s tale of an elderly woman who goes missing on the Seoul underground has hit a nerve, winning the Man Asian literary prize and selling more than 2m copies in South Korea. It certainly taps the universal tendency to take one’s mother for granted, as the children of the missing woman decide to distribute [...]

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Malorie Blackman is famous for writing books with hard-hitting themes and realistic situations – she is also famous for battling these issues superbly to make them into brilliant, gripping books. Boys don’t cry is certainly no exception. Dante is 19 years old. One day, the doorbell rings, and the person he would be least likely [...]

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Since the death of her mother, Hannah’s family life on their dilapidated farm has been a bit chaotic. One day, Hannah finds a ramshackle old hen house in a forgotten corner of the farm and decides to turn it into a secret theatre. But then the farm is threatened with demolition and Hannah must hatch [...]

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Culture Books Children and teenagers Happy birthday to the children’s books site No JK Rowling or Philip Pullman – but David Walliams and Enid Blyton make the grade. To mark the first anniversary of the Guardian’s children’s books website, here are the authors that our young critics loved best this year Share 140 Comments (27) [...]

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The quest is on to find the JK Rowlings, Anthony Horowitzes and Roald Dahls of the future as the Guardian and publisher Hot Key Books launch a new writing prize looking for the next generation of children’s fiction writers. Hot Key Books, which will release its first titles this August, is on the hunt for [...]

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The book Diary of a Wimpy Kid is an international bestseller; I think this is because it is really funny and very easy to read. This book would appeal to children who love cartoon characters and funny books. The book is written for children aged 9 and above and I think both girls and boys [...]

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I don’t think I can predict what impact apps will have on developing a love of reading but I do think that right now they are an exciting way in which children can access good stories and particularly good illustrations. Original apps or the app version of a familiar book look and feels different from [...]

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cont ….  Her novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, tells the story of a young Nigerian girl whose world is turned upside down by her father’s affair. The 35-year-old from South London has been a nurse since leaving home at 16 and training at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She began writing her novel while on maternity [...]

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A first novel by a former opera singer has won the Costa children’s book award and is now in the running for the Costa book of the year award. Moira Young’s Blood Red Road is the tale of Saba, a girl growing up in a lawless future land, and her epic, desperate quest to find [...]

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The best games to play with the family at Christmas.

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For 46 years, Charles Boyle’s mother kept details of every Christmas present she gave. He explains why he’d brave a burning building to save her list

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Southern Baptist Convention pulls breast cancer charity edition after discovering indirect links to abortion provider

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This is a rare example of a triumph of self-publishing

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A character from the Clarice Bean books now has her own novel

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Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, makes a special promise to the Faultline Fiction reading group from Fendalton school in Christchurch, New Zealand, after hearing about how the city’s bookshops and libraries were destroyed

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Gerald Durrell’s books are to be given a new digital lease of life after years out of print.

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‘This book will tickle your funny bone till you will not be able to keep a straight face for days on end.’

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Post-Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, there certainly was a lot of fantasy, but there are many other kinds of books.

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Shared listening is brilliant both for passing a long journey and for the whole family enjoying a book together

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Why not run a library session for parents introducing them to some of their children’s favourite authors?

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For non-readers, it seems to me that the important thing is to get to those great stories in one way or another.

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In a strong year for children’s fiction set in the past, Philip Womack talks to Jacqueline Wilson, whose series about a Victorian foundling called Hetty Feather has captured the hearts of her readers.

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Meet Joan of Arc, the crown jewels, and a virtual chihuahua, as Philip Womack tickles himself with the best humorous books for children, whilst Toby Clements looks at a brilliantly silly picture book by Oliver Jeffers.

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Would contemporary authors relish the daunting seriousness of a schoolboy questionnaire, sent to 150 leading authors in 1963?

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Discover the poems and stories by winners aged 6 to 26 in the Wicked young writers’ awards 2011

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In a strike against Apple and Barnes & Noble, Amazon’s publishing unit has acquired 450 children’s titles from Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books, which the company plans to format for its full-color Kindle Fire tablet.

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From a freight train to a boy who couldn’t fart – our critics pick the funniest, rudest and most magical picture books for under-sevens this christmas. Source: GUARDIAN>> Read full article and comment » Inline Ad Purchase:  Intext Link

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Christmas books for children aged 8-12

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Pop singer Peter Andre today urged parents to read a bedtime story to their children every night.

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National Literacy Trust describes as ‘very worrying’ results of survey of 18,000 children between 11 and 16

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The pick of a bumper crop, with magical monkeys, rivers, cities and robots

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Delightful projects for children to make their Christmas presents

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Muggles, swat up on Harry with our Potter quiz or decorate the Christmas tree with Simon’s cat!

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This book is called Over and Under the Snow. It was written by Kate Messner. It is an information book all about a girl who goes skiing with her daddy, and he tells her all about the animals who live under and over the snow in the wintertime .. Over and Under the Snow by [...]

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When Christie Watson found out that her debut novel had been nominated for a Costa prize, she had to Google the awards to find out what they are. “I didn’t really know about it,” she says. “People were phoning and saying, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s fantastic’. It was only when I looked at the list of other writers that I thought, ‘Wow, this is a big deal’.”

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Gove to send one St James text to every school in move blasted as ‘unacceptable waste of money’

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When the Duchess of Cornwall was asked to choose her favourite childhood book to help promote literacy, her thoughts immediately turned to the adventures of the Exmoor pony Moorland Mousie.

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On day the new Wimpy Kid novel is published, and ahead of his appearance at a special Telegraph Bath Festival Of Children’s Literature event in December, Jeff Kinney answers an exclusive Q&A with Festival Director John McLay.

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Changing careers from nursing to writing has been a hard but worthwhile battle.

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Four books are going to battle it out for the Costa children’s book award – find out more and help to review them

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Andy Mulligan follows Philip Pullman and Anne Fine to win £1,500 award for Return to Ribblestrop

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Swedish trilogy contains ‘colonial stereotypes’

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A doodling, distracted schoolboy and pirate cats have been declared the funniest children’s books of the year

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A major publisher of illustrated classics has offered to boost the libraries of poorer schools in London with a remarkably generous offer of 1,000 free books worth £30,000.

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Liz Pichon’s The Brilliant World Of Tom Gates and Peter Bentley’s Cats Ahony! win the two Roald Dahl Funny Prizes for 2011.

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‘Tintin in the Congo’, the comic banned from the children’s shelves of British book shops, is an example of “politically correct lunacy”, according to the Vatican’s official newspaper.

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‘This is a great book!’

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Tintin, the comic book hero, is embroiled in a row about political correctness – just as he is about to make the switch to celluloid superstar.

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