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Benjamin Franklin once wrote to the Royal Society of London: "I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter."  Read more

Whenever someone chooses to leave social media, you hear the same refrain: it's gotten so negative, I can't stand it. To me, that's a reason to stay.

Almost a third (30%) of the children's books published in the UK last year featured a racially minoritised character, reflecting an unprecedented and "remarkable" longterm rise in representation, according to a new report from the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE).

I make books about books, and every year hundreds of people commission me to make custom art prints for them or their loved ones, of the spines of the books that changed their lives and made them who they are today. And as a result, I've read quite a lot of books-for people of all ages-and spent a lot of time researching which books people love most.