Author and illustrator Emma Farrarons has signed a four-book deal for a new character-led young fiction series with Simon & Schuster Children’s Books.

dragons and a witch. (Age 5–7, 8–10) Neon and the Goonicorns by Sibéal Pounder, illustrated by Sarah Warburton, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 208PP, ISBN 9781408894170 The unicorn land of ...

THE rise of AI bedtime story-telling will rob parents and children of precious memories, top kids’ authors fear. Several artificial intelligence apps are now available, including AI Bedtime Custom ...

Bestselling children’s author ... tells the story of a little witch and her sidekick in an imaginary world. Mr Keilty, who has written 17 children’s books, is now also preparing to pen his ...

9. THE SCORPION AND THE NIGHT BLOSSOM, by Amélie Wen Zhao. (Delacorte) Àn’yīng must win the trials of the Temple of Dawn in order to save her mother. (Ages 14 to 17) ...

Elphaba Thropp is best known as the all-singing, all-dancing, not-always-wicked Witch of the West in ... and the author of numerous children’s and adult books, in previous volumes retained ...

The book reimagined L. Frank Baum’s classic Oz through the eyes of the Wicked Witch of the West ... are as adults is rooted in who we were as children and how we survived whatever it was ...

Aldeburgh based writers Frances Welch and Tallulah Brown's work puts women front and centre. Here, they tell Catherine Larner how they inspire ...

The renewal is paired with some major changes both on-screen and behind the scenes in the form of a new setting and a new ...

A brief trajectory of how with the passing of time, oral folktales ended up becoming the thriving canon of fairy tales.

The worlds of fairies, ogres, and magic are set to collide in Maverick’s new graphic novel The October Girl: Book One, and we ...

The author caught up with PEOPLE about his new book, creating his iconic protagonist and his reaction to the 2024 movie ...