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Q & A with Joe Schreiber
Perry's Killer Playlist is Joe Schreiber's second YA novel, a sequel to last year's Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick. Both are classic stories of boy meets girl (assassin), with the new book taking teenage Perry and his rock band to Europe, home to Gobija Zaksauskas, a foreign exchange student who turned out to be a killer-for-hire.
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A Hollywood Director's Children's Book Debut
Usually, it's the book that spawns the movie. But in Gary Ross’s case, it was a 1996 movie that spawned his children's book, Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind (Candlewick) illustrated by Matthew Myers, which will be released November 13.
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In Conversation: Jasper Fforde and Gabrielle Zevin
As part of the YA Not? series at Brooklyn's Word bookstore, Jasper Fforde was interviewed about his first young adult novel, The Last Dragonslayer, by Gabrielle Zevin, author of, most recently, Because It Is My Blood.
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Q & A with Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith has developed a reputation as a writer who isn't afraid of portraying evil in its most graphic form, and that includes his hallucinatory new horror fantasy, Passenger, a sequel to The Marbury Lens.
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Q & A with Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis’s new novel, My Name Is Parvana is a follow-up to her Breadwinner trilogy about 11-year old Parvana, who disguises herself as a boy in order to work and support her family, and her friend Shauzia’s struggle to get out of an Afghan refugee camp.
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Q & A with Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket returns, this time narrating his own story, rather than that sad saga about the Baudelaire orphans. The four-book series, titled All the Wrong Questions, begins with Who Could That Be at This Hour?, in which readers meet Lemony at age 12, as he embarks on his first mission for whoever it is he works for.
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Q & A with Jasper Fforde
Best known for his literary spoofs starring detective Thursday Next, British author Jasper Fforde dips into the YA pool with The Last Dragonslayer, first in a trilogy about an orphan who finds herself in charge of a boarding house/employment agency for wizards and magicians. Fforde spoke with Bookshelf while in Atlanta as part of a month-long U.S. tour, about his inspiration for the new series.
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Video: Daniel Handler on Lemony Snicket and 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
Bestselling author Daniel Handler talks about his relationship with Lemony Snicket and his new book, 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
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Q & A with Stephen Savage
Stephen Savage, whose latest book, Little Tug, is out this month, shares the story of his artistic beginnings.
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Q & A with Bob Balaban
Actor, producer, and director Bob Balaban has appeared on stage, on TV, and in nearly 100 movies, including Midnight Cowboy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Gosford Park. In 2002, he added "author" to his impressive list of credits, with his six-book McGrowl series for middle-graders. Now Balaban makes a new foray into fiction with Boy or Beast, the launch title of the Creature from the Seventh Grade series.
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Q & A with Lucy Cousins
The last time British author and illustrator Lucy Cousins, who has more than 30 million books in print worldwide, visited this side of the pond was to celebrate the 10th birthday of her most famous creation, Maisy. That was in 2000, just after Maisy debuted in her own TV series on Nick Jr. So when Cousins arrived for a brief visit earlier this month, PW jumped at the opportunity to catch up with her.
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Books I Love: Libba Bray
Books I Love is a series where writers talk about the books that inspired them, the books they keep coming back to, and the books they'll always remember. Libba Bray, author of the new novel The Diviners, picks her favorites.
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Q & A with Sonia Manzano
Actress and author Sonia Manzano is perhaps best known for her ongoing role as Maria on Sesame Street. But she has also written two picture books and has just published her first YA novel: The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, about a Puerto Rican girl awakened to political activism in 1969.
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Q & A with G. Brian Karas
Lemonade in Winter is the latest picture book to feature artwork by G. Brian Karas, who over the course of his three-decade career has illustrated close to 100 books. Karas spoke with PW just before moving from his home in New York's Hudson Valley to a nearby hamlet.
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Q & A with Ian Falconer
Ian Falconer’s headstrong Olivia may be a piglet, but she is decidedly not pink. Falconer’s new picture book, Olivia and the Fairy Princesses, reveals Olivia's girlhood bête noire (or bête rose, as the case may be). Readers of Olivia Saves the Circus and Olivia and the Missing Toy, and admirers of Falconer's satiric images for the New Yorker and other publications, will detect the sharp wit underlying Olivia’s fairy princess troubles.
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Obituary: Nina Bawden
British author Nina Bawden, best known for the children’s novel Carrie's War, died on August 22 at her home in London. She was 87.
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Obituary: Jean Merrill
Jean Merrill, the children’s author best known for her 1964 title The Pushcart War, died from cancer on August 2 at her home in Randolph, Vt., at age 87.
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Obituary: Remy Charlip
Children's author and illustrator, dancer, actor and multi-talented artist Remy Charlip died on August 14. He was 83.
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Q & A with Sarah Stewart and David Small
The Quiet Place is the sixth picture book by husband-and-wife collaborators Sarah Stewart and David Small, whose 1997 The Gardener was a Caldecott Honor book. From their Michigan home, Stewart and Small talked to Bookshelf about their latest book and their many years of collaboration.
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Q & A with Laura Amy Schlitz
Splendors and Glooms, the latest novel from Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz, is a gothic thriller about three children at the mercy of an unscrupulous puppeteer, who is himself under the spell of a malicious witch. It's actually two separate stories that overlap at one key point, and its complexity gave the Baltimore school librarian fits as she wrestled it into shape. But it allowed her to marry two of her passions in a single work – Dickens and marionettes.
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