Keep your little ones busy this festive season with our colouring sheet inspired by The Christmas Tree Mouse by Joseph Coelho and Farah Shah.  The Christmas Tree Mouse is one of Santa’s most important helpers – every Christmas Eve she helps to brush away Santa’s snowy footprints, nibble up his mince pie crumbs and check […]

For the festive season, we’re giving a lucky reader the chance to win William Sieghart’s Poetry Pharmacy collection as well as an online poetry prescription with the author himself. Sometimes only a poem will do. The Poetry Pharmacy offers poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space […]

Challenge yourself with a book-themed brainteaser from Alex Bellos, The Guardian’s resident puzzle columnist. Think Twice – Bellos’ new book – is a collection of 70 intriguing puzzles, each deceptively simple on the surface, but guaranteed to challenge and confound. These are puzzles to get stuck into, and getting them wrong is all part of […]