Children's Books podcast

Lauren Oliver talks to Michelle Pauli about the third and last book in her Delirium trilogy, Requiem. It is set in a world in which "love is a contagious disease".

Saci Lloyd reads from her latest book, Quantum Drop, and answers questions about stories, characters, science and politics

John Green reads aloud The Fault In Our Stars and answers questions from Guardian teenage readers about the book and his life and writing. This love story for teens about young cancer sufferers does contain some strong language

Annabel Pitcher talks to Michelle Pauli about her new novel for teenagers, Ketchup Clouds, and reads from the opening

Michael Grant, author of the Gone series, in which every person over 14 disappears, leaving a small community of kids in California trapped in a dome-shaped force field, and the BZRK trilogy, about a conspiracy to take over the world using nanotechnology, chats to site member Patrick about how he writes and how he reads

Cornelia Funke, the German prize-winning children's author, visits Salisbury cathedral, which was the inspiration for her story for latest novel, Ghost Knight. Site member Patrick went to Salisbury to meet her.

Children's writer David Almond and illustrator Oliver Jeffers talk to Michelle Pauli about their latest book The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas and answer questions from site members

As a lifelong Doctor Who fan, author Jenny Colgan grabbed her chance to write a Doctor Who novel, which she called Dark Horizons. She tells children's books site member Patrick about writing a book with 'more violence and less kissing', obeying BBC rules about the Doctor's trousers, and why she called herself JT Colgan

Tanya Byrne's first book is a young adult crime novel about a teenager who is out to get the girl who stabbed her criminal father. It's written in the form of a diary and is the first young adult novel to be shortlisted for a Crime Writers Association prize

Jacqueline Wilson reads from Four Children and It, her follow-up version of E Nesbit's Five Children and It, and answers questions from our children's panel, including why she chose to "reboot" a classic tale. She also confesses that her character Rosalind is based on herself.

Cows-in-Action and Astrosaurs author Steve Cole is interviewed by children's books site member Patrick and talks about getting chased by a herd of sprinting cows and what it's like writing Doctor Who books

Eoin Colfer reads from Artemis Fowl and The Last Guardian, and answers questions from Guardian Children's books site members about how he is going to fill the Artemis void

Listen to Rich Sylvester tell a story at the Pop-Up Festival about an ant and a peacock cooking

Malorie Blackman reads her story for teenagers The Receiving End: all their young lives the twins didn't get on, with disastrous results

Jamila Gavin reads from Tales from India at the Brighton Festival and answers questions from 12-year-old children's books site member Orli the Bookworm