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Q & A with Shirley Hughes
Award-winning author and illustrator Shirley Hughes's first novel, Hero on a Bicycle, a highly charged thriller set in Nazi-occupied Florence in 1944, will be released this month.
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Q & A with Kathy Reichs
Out this month, Code, the third installment in the Virals YA series, written by author and Bones creator Kathy Reichs and her son, Brendan.
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Catching Up with the 'Deliriously' Busy Lauren Oliver
PW Bookshelf caught up with busy author Lauren Oliver following her eight-day, eight-city tour promoting the release of Requiem, the final book in her Delirium trilogy.
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Q & A with David Ezra Stein
Award-winning author/illustrator David Ezra Klein's newest title, Ol' Mama Squirrel, tells the story of a resolute rodent prepared to do anything necessary to protect her babies from danger.
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Q & A with Nora Raleigh Baskin
This year sees publication of Nora Raleigh Baskin's ninth and tenth novels: this month's Surfacing, a YA novel, and the middle-grade Runt.
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Q & A with Linda Urban
Bookseller-turned-author Linda Urban's third book, The Center of Everything, follows 12-year-old Ruby as she deals with the passing of her grandmother and tries to make her greatest wish come true.
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Q & A with Marcus Pfister
Marcus Pfister, whose Rainbow Fish books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, speaks about his various projects past and present.
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Maureen Johnson: The Queen of Teen
YA writer Maureen Johnson has had a very good decade.
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A Loving Tribute: Maurice Sendak on 'My Brother's Book'
Editor Michael di Capua is talking about My Brother's Book, Maurice Sendak's final work, as he looks through the folder he kept for the project.
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Q & A with Lauren DeStefano
Lauren DeStefano's Chemical Garden trilogy of dystopian novels for YA readers paints a harrowing portrait of the unintended and tragic consequences of modern society’s relentless pursuit of perfection.
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Q & A with Shaun Tan
Australian author Shaun Tan's newest title, The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook, is a sketchbook-sized volume of rough work and inspiration for his award-winning books and films.
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Q & A with Michael B. Kaplan
Michael B. Kaplan's heroine returns this month in Betty Bunny Didn't Do It (illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch), which has the crafty rabbit blaming the Tooth Fairy for a broken lamp.
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2013 Caldecott Caps Busy Year for Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen was up early on Monday morning – not because he was expecting a career-changing phone call, but because he had a plane to catch.
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'Pure Shock and Surprise' for 2013 Printz Winner Nick Lake
Nick Lake had been working at home in Oxford England for hours when the phone rang.
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Katherine Applegate on Winning the 2013 Newbery
Normally Katherine Applegate would have been in her house in San Francisco the morning that "the call" came in.
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Q & A with Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell's YA debut, Eleanor & Park, a love story set in Omaha about two outsiders, hits stores soon. She spoke with PW about realistic romance, the power of music, and not being precious about writing.
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On the Road with Sarah Dessen
On January 18, a lucky audience in Pittsburgh got a sneak preview of Sarah Dessen's upcoming novel, The Moon and More.
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Q & A with Nancy Carpenter
Versatile illustrator Nancy Carpenter spoke with PW about her illustrations for Lucky Ducklings, Eva Moore's story of a group of Montauk townspeople who save five ducklings from a storm drain.
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Obituary: Jan Ormerod
Australian-born author and illustrator Jan Ormerod died in Cambridge, England, on January 23 after a long illness. She was 67.
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Q & A with Ruta Sepetys
The bestselling author of the highly acclaimed debut Between Shades of Gray, has a new historical novel set in New Orleans in 1950.



