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Read the latest installment of the new graphic novella by the award-winning cartoonist Chris Ware, tracing the lives of six individuals from Sandy Port, Michigan
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Louise Welsh’s dystopian tale of plague in London and Tom Rob Smith’s Swedish family chiller are among the highlights in this year’s roundup, writes Laura Wilson
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Join us for a special end of year quiz at London’s the Tabernacle on Wednesday 10 December
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Louise Welsh’s dystopian tale of plague in London and Tom Rob Smith’s Swedish family chiller are among the highlights in this year’s roundup, writes Laura Wilson
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It's 200 years since this most notorious author died and his work has lost none of its power to shock. Dare you submit to the scandalous torture of our quiz?
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From the Tale of Peter Rabbit to the Albergs’ classic Burglar Bill, our Book Doctor seeks out the best children’s books exploring crime – and the great moral debates you can have after reading them!
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From Catcher in the Rye to The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the stories that help us make sense of the world
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When Satoshi Kitamura came to the UK he was shocked to find reading comics was looked down on, things were very different in Japan...
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Six books in the running for the 15th Blue Peter book award, including Chris Riddell’s new Goth Girl adventure and a comic strip
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Discussions Exploring conflict through teen and YA books
Kerry Drewery asks why there is an Iraq shaped void in teen and YA fiction and calls for more teen and YA books to be set in the Middle East -
Edward Carey shares illustrations of a particularly unsettling and strange bunch of Victorian characters that star in his Gothic epic Heap House and its sequel Foulsham
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Happy December everyone! Now we are officially allowed to think about Christmas and wintery things – so let’s get in the mood with a very beautiful animation
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Writing competition Enter the Cuckoo Young Writers Award 2015
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The lovable bear in the familiar duffel coat makes the leap from page to screen as Paddington hits cinemas this week. But how much do you know about him?
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Judith Kerr, Russell Brand, Lauren Child, Anthony Horowitz and Axel Scheffler headline at the Southbank’s Imagine children’s festival 2015
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justonemorepage: 'Be prepared with more tissues than you needed for The Fault in Our Stars, a chunky notebook to scribble down all the quotes and a handful of witty responses when people ask why you're chuckling to yourself in the corner'
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Afzii47: 'I really liked the novel and most of it is because of Shams of Tabriz, from his rules of love to his strong personality to his love and belief on god everything was mesmerizing'
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Gryffindor: 'A review on the back of the book says 'I never knew science could be so funny'. I agree that it is funny but it looks serious next to my first book review'
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Our site members have been browsing through poetry, books about spies and historical fiction featuring tigers this week
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faithgirl400: 'My favourite quote from the book is: 'I wasn't sad, I wasn't scared, I just thought: it doesn't matter what I look like, I was alive, I was thankful''
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Newsflash: Old hands Marcus Sedgwick, David Almond and James Dawson compete with newcomers Non Pratt, Sally Green and others among the top 10 titles up for the £2,000 prize
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Poppy68: 'I loved this book, which is the fourth in the L'Etoile series, because it's full of dramatic twists in the plot that keep you reading on and wondering what will happening next'
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Poppy68: 'I enjoyed E. Nesbit's Five Children and It so it was great to read a first world war sequel'
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John Lewis penguins, marauding apes, a dog-eating book, abstract stories and a swishing Queen’s Hat all feature in our gallery of picture book reviews from the last month
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Butterfly Rainbow: 'I felt that it began a touch slowly and I read not much of it over three days, but after the exciting sections began, I breezed through it in a day!'
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Twilight Vi: 'The book is written in first person which I love because I actually feel like I am him. Once you start reading it you just can't stop'
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TwilightVi: 'I still think this is an amazing book but for 8 and up, no little kids should read this because they will get nightmares'
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Review the picture book you’re currently reading with your child – and show us a photo – and we’ll choose the best for a gallery on the Guardian children’s books site
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Scoutingforbooks: 'The book is an insight into her mind, as I feel poetry is to every poet'
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YouTube star Zoella’s first book sells 78,000 copies in its first week, the highest first week’s sales of a new author ever!
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In pictures How the tiger came to be
In a series of annotated editions to be sold for charity, authors and illustrators from Judith Kerr to Quentin Blake and Raymond Briggs reveal the stories behind their most famous books -
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Going, going, gone: Phases of Twilight by Jessa Gamble
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Get to know the five novels – whose subjects range from the glory days of the Mughal empire to traumatised modern Sri Lanka – in contention for the $50,000 award
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We celebrate the life of PD James, with portraits which find her at work, on the beach in Southwold and with the television incarnation of her most popular character, Adam Dalgliesh
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This year’s shortlists feature household names alongside new voices, and subjects ranging from Renaissance painters to restaurants
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The second in a series of sound stories designed to lull you into sleep
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Writers from Philip Roth to Gillian Flynn and from Toni Morrison to Richard Ford have returned to their own work to annotate a selection of first editions. Take a look at the novel still closest to Anne Tyler’s heart and the pages which make Neil Gaiman the most proud as we round up the highlights from an auction in support of American PEN
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Ruth Rendell looks back on her 40-year friendship with her fellow crime novelist PD James – ‘such a nice woman’