George and Martha and Frog and Toad are among the most memorable duos in children’s literature, beloved for the way their ...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere ...

Before I even knew Dahl wrote children’s books, I was reading his more macabre stories. My favourite character is Mrs Foster, from The Way Up to Heaven. She’s a timid elderly woman married to ...

Holes, Paperback Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats Now Stanley ...