Books by Francesca Simon, Anthony Horowitz, Shirley Hughes and Lauren Child will be included in 2013's World Book Day offering, with director Kirsten Grant saying the literacy initiative is planning to create £1m worth of book sales.

Grant, who was appointed in 2011, said organisers were aiming for 1.2 million of the WBD...

Orion is to publish a new full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, written by Alex Rider author Anthony Horowitz, after he was selected by the Conan Doyle Estate.

Jon Wood, deputy group publisher, acquired world rights to the as-yet-unnamed title through Robert Kirby of United Agents.

Further details about the title, to be published...

I was a panellist this week at the Children's Media Conference in Sheffield. It was a strangely unsettling experience. The aim of the session was, in a word, adaptation: from book to TV and film.

As the programme put it: ". . . with the children's broadcast landscape becoming increasingly difficult to find purchase in, the need for...

A few months ago, I was surprised to read in the Times that Michael Gove, then the Tory shadow spokesman on education, planned to get in touch with Michael Morpurgo- and myself to advise on which books every student in the UK should read. He was searching for "a traditional education with children sitting in rows, learning the kings and...