Campaign launched to reinstate primary school library fund abolished 15 years ago

Lots of children sadly experience a death in their family that is harder to explain and much more difficult to process

YA Fiction: Yasmin Rahman’s All The Things We Never Said, Meredith Russo’s Birthday and more

Demand for children’s literature has skyrocketed following success of likes of Colfer and Shan

From picture books to YA fiction, it’s a great time to be a girl who loves to read

An education scheme is helping children see writers as living, breathing people rather than mythical beats

Memorial fund is named after children’s literature champion Robert Dunbar

Reviews of titles by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Siobhán Parkinson, Judi Curtin, Paul Gamble and Peter Bunzl, plus Harry Potter ebooks from JK Rowling

Investing in shares would come very low on my list of fun ways to spend an afternoon”

Siobhán Parkinson traces the history, successes, challenges and ambitions of the children’s publisher she helped found in 2010 as it launches its 50th book

Passionate, relentlessly energetic and possessing a collegial focus: ahead of the announcement of the inaugural laureate in The Irish Times, the selection panel discuss what they are looking for

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Sarah Webb explains how she persuaded the cream of Irish children’s writers and illustrators to combine on an anthology to raise funds for Fighting Words

Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January