The best children's fiction "helps us refind things we may not even know we have lost", writes the author Katherine Rundell, with many books proving subversive and emboldening.

I am absolutely not suggesting adults read only, or even primarily, children's fiction. Just that there are times in life when it might be the only thing that will do.

To read children’s fiction is to shed our adult baggage and re-enter a state of possibility when the world was still up for grabs. Open one of Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books and you ...

The idea that children are imaginative but adults are not is a popular theme in children’s literature. In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Willy Wonka is intent on leaving his factory to ...

Learning to read can become exponentially more difficult for older students and adults who have fallen behind, creating grave concerns as the number of individuals struggling with literacy into hig… ...