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Q & A with Sally Gardner
British writer Sally Gardner's fifth novel, Maggot Moon, set in a tyrannical dictatorship called The Motherland, the sort of place Europe might have become had the Nazis won World War II, is already one of the most talked-about books of the year in England, where it recently won the Costa Children's Prize.
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Aaron Frisch, Editor and Author, Dies at 37
Funeral services were held in Minnesota on Saturday morning for children's and YA book author Aaron Frisch, 37, who died tragically and unexpectedly on January 7.
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The Call That Changes Everything – or Not
How does winning the Newbery or Caldecott medal change the lives of the winners? PW caught up with each of the medalists of the past five years to find out.
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Obituary: Gerald McDermott
Author, illustrator, and filmmaker Gerald McDermott died on December 26 at age 71. McDermott wrote and illustrated many picture books, and won the 1975 Caldecott Medal for Arrow to the Sun: A Tale from the Pueblo.
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Q & A with Ben Schrank
Razorbill publisher Ben Schrank's most recent book, Love Is a Canoe, follows a Brooklyn couple with a shaky marriage, an editor trying to bring new life to a beloved backlist title, and the author of that decades-old book, whose wife has died.
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Retelling Alice: 'PW' Talks with A.G. Howard
In her modern-day retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, A.G. Howard puts a gothic spin on the beloved classic, sending 16-year-old Alyssa back through the looking glass to correct the wrongs of her great-great-great grandmother Alice.
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Q & A with Natalie Merchant
Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant's conceptual album Leave Your Sleep featured children's poetry adapted into music and song. Merchant spoke with PW about this ambitious and ongoing project for young readers and listeners.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts
Spotlights on six children's and YA authors who made notable debuts this fall.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Gennifer Albin
Before Gennifer Albin wrote Crewel, the story of a girl who can weave time but who struggles against those in power who want to control her ability, her husband often teased her that her epitaph was going to read: "The author of the 20 most promising first chapters ever."
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Chris Howard
Jimi Hendrix guitar solos, Kerouac, Ginsberg, the canyons of the American Southwest and many other influences fed into Chris Howard's first published book, Rootless, a YA novel set in a future America where vegetation and wildlife are long gone.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Sarah J. Maas
Debut author Sarah J. Maas's novel, Throne of Glass, is a lighthearted speculation about the "untold" story behind Cinderella – what if, instead of being the damsel in distress, Cinderella was secretly an assassin who went to the ball to kill the prince?
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Matt Luckhurst
As a high school graduate in western Canada, Matt Luckhurst knew what was expected of him.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Rachel Hartman
The path to publication can be a long, slow one. Just ask Rachel Hartman. Her debut, the epic YA fantasy Seraphina, was released nine years after she started writing it, with a few bumps along the way.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Stefan Bachmann
Very little about 19-year-old Stefan Bachmann says "typical teenager."
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Q & A with Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
Disgruntled teenager Ben and his impulsive father set out to rescue an abandoned border collie in Road Trip, three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen's first collaboration with his sculptor son, Jim.
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Q & A with Karen Cushman
The author of the Newbery Award-winning The Midwife's Apprentice and seven other acclaimed novels of historical fiction, Karen Cushman has proven adept at bringing other eras to life.
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5 Writing Tips from Laini Taylor
Laini Taylor's Days of Blood & Starlight (the follow-up to Daughter of Smoke & Bone) is filled with dazzling writing, not to mention fantasy, suspense, and a page-turning story. Take notes, because Taylor's sharing her 5 writing tips.
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PW Talks with NBA Medalist William Alexander
Rubbing elbows with the likes of Louise Erdrich and Dave Eggers came as a bit of a shock to author William Alexander, who received the NBA for Young People's Literature for his first novel, Goblin Secrets.
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Q & A with Henry Cole
The illustrator of some 80 picture books – some of which he wrote, some penned by other authors – Henry Cole is a versatile children's book creator. In his latest solo effort, Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad, a wordless picture book about a girl who discovers – and protects – a runaway slave hiding in her family's barn.
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Q & Art with Jeff Kinney
The seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Third Wheel, landed in stores nationwide on Tuesday, November 11. We took the opportunity to ask series creator Jeff Kinney a few questions.
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