Guess How Much I Love You, a bestseller since 1994 illustrated by Anita Jeram, is unusual among the top 100 books for having a father as a central figure. Photograph: Anita JeramGuess How Much I Love You, a bestseller since 1994 illustrated by Anita Jeram, is unusual among the top 100 books for having a father as a central figure. Photograph: Anita JeramThe ObserverChildren's books: 7 and under This article is more than 6 years oldMust monsters always be male?

FictionReviewA woman returns to her wife transformed after a deep-sea voyage in this powerful debut novel Julia Armfield’s first book, a collection of stories called Salt Slow, set out a method. Choose a quotidian phenomenon – problem skin, say, or sleeplessness – and use it as a foundation stone for relentlessly logical, haunted edifices reminiscent of the contemporary gothic ofMariana Enríquez or Guadalupe Nettel. So a convent schoolgirl with problem skin, always shedding and peeling, undergoes a metamorphosis; or a town fills with Sleeps, each having stepped out of its owner “like a passenger from a railway carriage”.

GermanyAxel Springer is accused by ex-employees of turning a blind eye to sexual misconduct at flagship title Bild That Axel Springer, a media empire built on digging up stories of sex and sleaze among the rich and famous, should have turned a blind eye to sex and sleaze within its own offices will hardly have come as a shock to its readers. A chauvinistic “Wolf of Wall Street” office culture at its flagship title Bild has always been plain to see, say former staff members at the German media giant, named after its five-times-married founder who died in 1985.

Technology This article is more than 1 year oldAI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essay-writing skills and usability This article is more than 1 year oldLatest chatbot from Elon Musk-founded OpenAI can identify incorrect premises and refuse to answer inappropriate requests Professors, programmers and journalists could all be out of a job in just a few years, after the latest chatbot from the Elon Musk-founded OpenAI foundation stunned onlookers with its writing ability, proficiency at complex tasks, and ease of use.

PhotographyPhotographer Laura Pannack stripped off to gain access to the secret world of young British nudistsThey sit in old-fashioned halls or play pétanque in the surreal other world of naturist clubs. Britain's young naturists may be an endangered breed, but Laura Pannack, who won their trust by agreeing to take her clothes off before she photographed them, discovered an astonishing diversity of subjects. Her quest to portray the secret lives of naturists under 30 has taken 18 months.