As Avengers: Endgame is released, Roz Kaveney sweeps us through the shifting cast of superheroes and, latterly, heroines that populate the Marvel Universe, considers the evolving politics of the comic-book film, and answers the question on (some) people's lips: "but why...?"; Imogen Russell Williams's introduces some of the best writing on LGBTQ themes for children and young adults
Avengers: Endgame
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Aalfred and Aalbert by Morag Hood
Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens
Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by L. C. Rosen
Proud: Stories, poetry and art on the theme of pride, compiled by Juno Dawson
