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Newbery Honor Author a Hit on Japanese TV
Margi Preus, whose novel, Heart of a Samurai, has just received a 2011 Newbery Honor, is on her way to becoming a media celebrity in Japan.
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'Hello? It's the ALA Calling': Stead and Vanderpool on Winning the Big Prize
When you win a Newbery or a Caldecott Medal, you find out in an early morning phone call—and your life is changed in an instant. Both Erin Stead and Clare Vanderpool received that call this past Monday morning; we spoke with both of them to find out where they were when the phone rang, what their reactions were, and what they did next.
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Q & A with Ellen Potter
In 2003, Ellen Potter made a lively splash onto the scene with her middle-grade novel Olivia Kidney. Most recently, the author tapped into memories of her own childhood reading to pen The Humming Room, a novel inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.
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Q & A with Elizabeth Eulberg
A book publicist for a dozen years, first for Scholastic and currently for Little, Brown as director of global publicity for Stephenie Meyer, Elizabeth Eulberg stepped into the role of author with The Lonely Hearts Club. Scholastic's Point imprint is publishing her second YA novel, Prom & Prejudice, a modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Bookshelf caught up with Eulberg—who like Lizzie lives in Hoboken—to talk about the novel and her writing life.
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Fall 2010 Flying Starts
Interviews with four novelists who had noteworthy debuts this fall.
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Planes, Picture Books, and Pastels: Meeting Bob Graham
Children's illustrator Suzy Becker writes about meeting Australian illustrator Bob Graham, on a trip to Melbourne.
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Erskine Wins NBA in Young People's Literature
Kathryn Erskine was filled with gratitude as she stepped up to the podium on Wednesday night to claim the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, for her novel Mockingbird (Philomel), about a 10-year-old girl with Asperger's syndrome.
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Q & A with Michael Rosen
For more than 35 years, Londoner Michael Rosen has been writing books for children, primarily poetry anthologies and picture books. Tiny Fly Guy, the latest offering from the author, who served as the U.K.'s Children's Laureate from 2007-2009, was published by Candlewick last month. Bookshelf caught up with Rosen during his recent visit to Boston.
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Who Are You Writing About Today, Jean Fritz?
On November 16, 2010, Jean Fritz celebrates her 95th birthday, and on January 6, 2011, we will publish Alexander Hamilton, The Outsider, Jean's 45th book for Putnam. It is our 29th book together and each one has been an amazing experience, filled with distinct and very warm memories.
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Q & A with Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley gained early fame when her second published novel, The Blue Sword (1982), was named a Newbery Honor and her third novel, The Hero and the Crown, won the Newbery itself. Among her 15 other books are Beauty, a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," and Sunshine, a vampire novel. In the world of Pegasus, McKinley's newest tale, human beings must coexist with a race of sentient, winged ungulates with whom communication is extremely difficult.
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Q & A with Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park is the Newbery-Award winning author of A Single Shard and other acclaimed novels and picture books. Her forthcoming book, The Long Walk to Water, profiles two young people in the Sudan—one based on a real Lost Boy, who was forced to flee his village, the other a fictional girl who collects the water for her village.
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Obituary: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson died October 20 at her home in Newcastle, England. She was 85. In a career that spanned three decades, she wrote more than 20 novels for children and adults.
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Q & A with Kate Thompson
In the past five years, the novels of one English writer have been awarded the Whitbread, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, been shortlisted for the Carnegie, and won Ireland's Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award four times. The writer is Kate Thompson, who concludes her trilogy about trouble on earth and in Tír na n'Óg, the fairy underworld, with The White Horse Trick.
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Andrew Vachss: Fighting Bullies One Book at a Time
Bestselling author Andrew Vachss wonders what the devotees of his inarguably adult hard-boiled crime fiction will think of his new book, Heart Transplant--created in partnership with illustrator Frank Caruso--for which he has reconfigured his detective fiction for a younger audience. Somewhere between graphic novel and picture book, Heart Transplant is aimed at the victims of bullies with the intent of helping the victims and their families deal with the situation effectively.
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Teenage Author of 'Halo' Shares Tales from Her Tour
Eighteen-year-old Alexandra Adornetto has just wrapped up a whirlwind three-week tour to promote Halo, the launch title of her paranormal romance trilogy, released by Feiwel & Friends on August 31. When we spoke with her on one of the final days of her tour, Adornetto gave no hint of road-weariness, but rather exuded boundless enthusiasm about her travels, the fans she's met, and the U.S.
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Making Room for a New Addition: PW Talks with Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham
John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury are two of England’s most honored and beloved author/artists for children. They have been married for 46 years and between them they have created scores of picture books. But until now, they have never done a book together.
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Richard Peck on Writing Through the Revolutions
At last Friday's author breakfast for the New England Independent Booksellers Association's fall conference, former English teacher Richard Peck wowed even the most morning-phobic booksellers with his presentation.
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Obituary: Stuart Hample
Artist and author Stuart Hample, who published several children's books as Stoo Hample, died September 19 at his home in New York City. He was 84.
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Rights Report: September 16
Disney and Offspring Entertainment have bought film rights to Ally Condie's Matched, a futuristic fantasy novel that Dutton is publishing in November, and Stacy Whitman at Lee & Low Books has acquired the first two novels for its Tu Books imprint.
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Obituary: Joan Steiner
Joan Steiner, creator of the Look-Alikes series of books, died September 8 of cancer at her home in Claverack, N.Y. Steiner's first children's book, Look-Alikes, was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 1998. Look-Alikes was named a best book of the year by several publications, including PW; the series sold more than one million copies in 16 languages worldwide.
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