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Q & A with Natalie Babbitt
Bookshelf talked with author Natalie Babbitt, whose new novel, The Moon Over High Street, is due from Scholastic’s Michael di Capua Books in March.
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Obituary: Bill Wallace
Children’s author Bill Wallace died on January 30 at his home in Chickasa, Okla., after a battle with cancer. He was 64.
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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley: Where They Were When the Award Call Came
Three lucky authors got phone calls from the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz committees, letting each of them know they had won the top prize.
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Swamped by Offers, Self-Pubbed YA Author Gets Agent and More
Since PW published a story about Brittany Geragotelis's novel Life's a Witch, the self-published author has been overwhelmed with inquiries from publishers, foreign rights agents and TV and film producers.
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John Green Moves to UTA for Film
YA novelist John Green, whose latest effort, The Fault in Our Stars, hit shelves on hit shelves on January 10, has moved from William Morris Endeavor to UTA for his Hollywood business.
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Fall 2011 Flying Starts: Marie Lu
Neither first-timer nerves nor the Santa Ana winds that brought massive power outages across Southern California could keep Pasadena resident Marie Lu from her very first signing as a published author—at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in Redondo Beach on December 1. “A dream come true,” says the author—a dream that was a long time coming.
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Fall 2011 Flying Starts: Robison Wells
Robison Wells did not aspire to be an author. In fact, as a teen, he hated English class and hated books. “I never wanted anything to do with writing,” he says now with a laugh. “Unlike so many of my colleagues, I was not born with a pencil in my hand.”
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Fall 2011 Flying Starts: Rae Carson
Rae Carson grew up reading fantasy, but as time passed, the genre conventions that once resonated began to feel, well, conventional. When she sat down to write her own fantasy novel, she says, “I wanted to subvert those tropes and focus on what a princess is not versus the tropes of what she is. I wanted an epic quest like Lord of the Rings, but less Aragorn and more Ugly Betty.”
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Fall 2011 Flying Starts: Wendy Wunder
In 2008, the first of a series of serendipitous events led then struggling writer Wendy Wunder (no, not a pseudonym) to a new career in YA literature. “I had been trying to write this adult novel that was semiautobiographical,” she says. Wunder wrote while her daughter was in preschool and diligently applied for grant funding to finish. “But I was starting to think maybe I should do something else with my life.”
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Fall 2011 Flying Starts: Christopher Silas Neal
For a graphic artist who has done posters, covers, and spot illustrations, illustrating a book should be a piece of cake, right? Not necessarily. “When I do a cover or a poster, it’s often a big figure or object that’s centered on the page,” Christopher Silas Neal says.
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Fall 2011 Flying Starts
For our semi-annual Flying Starts feature, we turn the spotlight on five new talents on the children's book scene.
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Q & A with Katherine Applegate
In her bestselling Animorphs series, Katherine Applegate introduced teens with the ability to morph into any animal they touch. She offers a very different take on an animal story in The One and Only Ivan, (Harper).
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YA Author with Huge Wattpad Fan Base Tries Self-Publishing
Despite attracting 13 million readers to her serialized novel, Life's a Witch, on the online writing community Wattpad, aspiring young adult novelist Brittany Geragotelis decided to self-publish, instead of taking the conventional literary route.
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On My Nightstand: David Macaulay's Nighttime Reading
Author, illustrator and Caldecott Medalist David Macaulay describes what's on his bedside table.
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PW Talks with NBA Winner Thanhha Lai
"This is more than I could have ever expected from telling one little story." With those words Thanhha Lai accepted the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature this past Wednesday night.
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Q & A with Colleen Houck
It's been a year of firsts for Colleen Houck: her first novel, Tiger's Curse, the first installment of a five-book series, was the first release from Splinter, Sterling's YA imprint.
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A Horse (Barn) of a Different Color
When pop-up book artist Robert Sabuda moved to Ulster County, 90 miles north of Manhattan, one of his favorite walks took him by a barn, where he often saw horses in a pasture. He bought the property and has dubbed it Ten Horse Art Space, and has a plan to convert the barn into artist studios and gallery space.
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Q & A with Barry Denenberg
As he did in Lincoln Shot!, Barry Denenberg meshes fact and fiction to tell the story of the building of the Titanic and its doomed maiden voyage, in Titanic Sinks! (Viking).
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Obituary: Florence Parry Heide
Florence Parry Heide, author of more than 100 books for children, died at home in Kenosha, Wis., on October 24. She was 92.
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A Conversation with Sam McBratney
To celebrate the reissue of his now-classic book, Guess How Much I Love You in a pop-up edition (with illustrations by the original artist, Anita Jeram), Irish author Sam McBratney visited the U.S. for the first time in a decade and did a whirlwind tour last month.
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