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A heartbreaking story to help tell your children about the Holocaust
What Rosa Brought, which Jacob Sager Weinstein based on his mother’s childhood, is hauntingly told and sharply illustrated by Eliza Wheeler
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Dave Eggers’s whale story is more didactic than children deserve
Soren’s Seventh Song, the latest children’s book by the American novelist, is engaging and chatty, but about as subtle as its protagonist
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The tale of the boy who faced down an Orwellian plot against Big Ben
Sam Sedgman’s novel The Clockwork Conspiracy is a thrilling romp that’s also packed with detail for budding horologists
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A magical children’s fantasy set in pirate-infested Georgian England
Among new fantasy tales, Tamzin Merchant’s The Troublemakers stands out – sumptuously written and wonderfully inventive
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Corruption, murder and a very modern YA detective story
Catch Your Death, Ravena Guron’s smart new novel, hurls a young woman into the bosom of a rich, scheming and possibly murderous family
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A beautiful paean to doing things at your own pace
This charming, exquisitely drawn debut story by the Korean author and illustrator Minu Kim blurs the boundary between fiction and self-help
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The best children’s books of 2023, from the King to a Spartan princess
This Christmas, young readers can look forward to tales of His Majesty, three wily monkeys and a sumptuous reimagining of Peter Pan
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The Famous Five, review: forgettable Enid Blyton update is an awfully boring adventure
The director of this adaptation may be – unexpectedly – Nicolas Winding Refn but the result is a mostly traditional, rather dull 90 minutes
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Benjamin Zephaniah made performance poetry mainstream – and was an eccentric joy to meet
The dub-poet turned down an OBE – and became a national treasure. Yet he never lost his sense of poetry’s radical, political possibilities
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This graphic novel was banned in America – but Netflix rightly snapped it up
Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper: Volume 5 continues the multi-million-selling tale of young gay love. In truth, it’s a gently-told, age-old tale
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The savage drama of the First World War, retold for children
Michael Foreman’s novella The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha, rightly republished, tells of the (real-life) bond between a seaman and a tortoise
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A Hans Christian Andersen tale smartly recast for modern children
MG Leonard’s latest novel, The Ice Children, takes Andersen’s classic The Snow Queen and infuses it with quickfire prose and new characters
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A much-needed work of children’s historical fiction: immigration and 20th-century New York
In 1911, sisters Sally and Bridget sail from Ireland to New York in search of opportunity, in Judi Curtin's Sally in the City of Dreams
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Quentin Blake returns with some real monkey business
No overt messages or morals, just everyday lessons, in gem of collaboration
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If your children like football, there’s only one book they need
The Football School Encyclopedia, by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttelton, covers not only tactics and sports science but quirks of English history
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Thought the Encyclopaedia Britannica was dead? Think again
Tidily illustrated and stuffed with facts, Encyclopedia Infographica gives the lie to the idea that children need the internet to learn
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Matt Lucas interview: ‘I’m a homosexual – by default I love musicals’
The comedian talks about composing, coming out and taking on his Little Britain co-star David Walliams in the world of children's books
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Love ‘pony stories’? Here’s one on a gritty council estate
Frances Moloney’s new novel is less Apple Won’t Jump than The Apparatchiks are Here – a stirring tale of a young girl standing up to power
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Come, children, and meet the souls of the dead
Frances Hardinge’s novel Island of Whispers is a creepily enchanting triumph that will appeal to all age groups – bar the very young
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Exclusive: Meet Winnie-the-Pooh’s long-lost friend
In this preview of an authorised sequel to AA Milne’s Hundred Acre Wood books, Christopher Robin and co are given a new companion
