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Flying high, solving mysteries and theatrical magic by various authors – children's book reviews –

Hauntings, horrors and hilarious romps for Halloween reading by various authors – children's book reviews –

Barbie Mondo Poster Shows Her Living Her Best Vintage Life

Children's and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels | Books

A joyful picture-book account of family life; a magical fantasy series begins; an addictive epistolary friendship; fast-paced feminist YA; and more

Drama at sea, a world of danger and a Roman romp by various authors – children's book reviews -

Fiction: Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star

Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star Fiction

Potton author celebrates after signing two book deal with publisher for novels with an inspiring heroine

Heroine shares her diagnosis of Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder

Carlisle author sees her debut children's book snapped up by publishing giant

A Carlisle author is giving a starring role to disabled youngsters who carry out a historical jewel heist in a debut book which has been snapped up by a publishing giant,

Carlisle author Laura Noakes's debut Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

Carlisle author Laura Noakes joins David Walliams and Michael Morpurgo at HarperCollins with debut book Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

Children's books roundup – the best new picture books and novels | Children and teenagers

really make it as a secret agent? This swift-paced, lively debut balances down-to-earth believability with wish-fulfilment fun. Geraldine McCaughrean’s The Supreme Lie (Usborne) is a more complex and stretching book, with the odd upsetting element, so it’s best suited to tougher readers of 10-plus. It follows Gloria, a teenage maid who finds herself impersonating a vanished head of state in Afalia, a country overwhelmed by floods. When Gloria’s desperate efforts to help the suffering population come up against the machinations of Afalian propagandists (elegantly evoked by Keith Robinson’s newspaper-style illustrations), discovery looms perilously close in this thought-provoking, poignant, blackly funny novel.