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 Four Derry schools participated in this year’s Junior Jurors’ Programme

Works by Derry authors Sue Divin and Maggie O’Farrell have been selected among ten picture books, short story collections and young adult novels shortlist...

Enjoy swashbuckling fun and danger on an animal island, prepare to be blown away by the unexpected ‘ripples’ from a royal event, meet a boy and a dog on a magical body-swap adventure, and celebrate the super-style of a hairdresser bear with an entertaining new collection of children’s books.

You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. Zadie Smith’s new children’s book is charming – and she’s not the only big name author to write for kids The i 4 hrs ago Louisa Saunders © Provided by The i Zadie Smith has written a children's book, 'Weirdo', with her husband Nick Laird (Photo: Dominique Nabokov) Between them they’ve amassed accolades including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award (now part of the Costas) and the Somerset Maugham Award. Now, Zadie Smith and her husban...

High Rise Mystery series, which updates the children’s detective genre for our times. Children’s literature has a long relationship with the uncanny. My very favourite 2020 book was a little bit Addams Family, and a little bit metaphysical. The Monsters of Rookhaven (Macmillan) by Pádraig Kenny imagined a village where the resident monsters keep to themselves in exchange for what scarce meat the villagers can tithe to them in wartime. When a human girl and her injured brother accidentally wander into the monsters’ garden, one misfit monster-girl – Mirabelle – makes friends and i...