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Every Teen's Struggle: Why I Wrote a Young Adult Novel
Lost in Cincinnati during the book tour for my young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, I argued with the GPS in my rental car. After publishing 19 books for adults, and enjoying what some might call a distinguished career, I was now driving in circles and cursing at a machine.
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About Our Cover Artist
Tad Hills never set out to be a children's book illustrator. “I really wanted to pursue acting,” he tells PW as he drops off the art work that is now our cover. After graduating from Skidmore College in 1986, where he studied art, Hills took on various freelance jobs—working on a screenplay, making marionettes and jewelry, and generally “doing art.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Lois Lowry
A Q&A with Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry, for her new novel The Willoughbys.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Meg Cabot
The YA author talks about Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls, her first book for middle-grade readers.
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Katherine Marsh
Soon Katherine Marsh will have more to celebrate than her debut novel, The Night Tourist (Hyperion), with her first child due February 1. “It's exciting because this is who I'm writing for,” she says. “I'm creating my audience.”
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Jonathan Bean
In 2002, when Bean was a senior at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, he had an idea that he wanted to be an illustrator. A professor there, Stephen Fieser, who taught illustration, put him in touch with Wes Adams, an editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. “I sent him some illustrations,” recalls Bean, now 28, “ which he politely rejected. But he wrote me a really long email critiquing them.”
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Jake Wizner
At Manhattan's Salk School, a prestigious public middle school for the scientifically minded, the best-read book this fall has nothing to do with physics. It's Spanking Shakespeare (Random House) a bawdy, faux memoir about a high school senior in search of a sex life, written by Jake Wizner.
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Jenny Downham
When you ask writers how they came up with the idea for their first novel, some might say that it came to them in a flash. Or that they based the main character on someone they knew. Not Jenny Downham, the 43-year-old British author of Before I Die, a luminous story about a feisty 16-year-old girl who is dying of leukemia. She, in fact, heard voices.
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PW Talks with Kadir Nelson
Award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson makes his authorial debut with We Are the Ship (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun), which tells the story of Negro League baseball.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz plans to tour the U.S. to promote Snakehead, the seventh book in a series about teen spy Alex Rider.
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Q & A with Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer’s latest novel, Airman (Hyperion), takes place a century ago on a pair of tiny islands just off the Irish coast. Bookshelf caught up with him to discuss his foray into historical fantasy.
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PW Talks with Libba Bray
After completing The Sweet Far Thing (Delacorte, Dec.), the third book in her trilogy about Gemma Doyle and the girls of Spence Academy, author Libba Bray has started a new project—a film about how she works.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Shaun Tan
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Scholastic/Levine) is a story told solely through pictures, about a man who travels to a strange land to start a new life for his family. Bookshelf spoke with the Australian illustrator during a brief visit to the U.S. last week to promote the book.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Lucy Hawking
George’s Secret Key to the Universe is the first book in a trilogy co-authored by arguably the world’s most renowned theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, his daughter Lucy, and French physicist Christophe Galfard. Bookshelf caught up with Lucy Hawking in the midst of a whirlwind international book tour.
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Q&A with Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
To mark the release of Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (Disney Editions), the final volume in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s saga about Peter before he was Pan, the authors kicked off a national tour, beginning with an appearance this week in Barry’s hometown: Miami, Florida.
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Q&A with Matthew Reinhart
A q&a with the creator of the new Star Wars pop-up.
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Q&A with Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron, best known as an author of adult novels (The City of Your Final Destination; Leap Year) and short story collections (The Half You Don’t Know: Selected Stories) has written a smart and elegant novel under the Francis Foster imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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On the Road with Deborah Wiles
Author Deborah Wiles tells PW that touring for a YA novel is not just about selling books: it’s about getting kids interested in reading them.
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Q&A with Ellen Emerson White
Ellen Emerson White was an 18-year-old freshman at Tufts University when she wrote her first novel, Friends for Life, a prep school murder mystery that was published in 1983.
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PW Talks with Jack Gantos
I Am Not Joey Pigza is the fourth book in Jack Gantos' series about a hyperactive hero for our times. Bookshelf caught up with the author for a chat about Joey's future.
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