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Giving Monsters a Voice
Turning traditional fairy tales inside out, Tiptree Award—winner Valente lets witches, demons and beasts tell their own stories of seeking—and not always finding—happily ever after. The tone of In the Cities of Coins and Spice is much darker than the first Orphan’s Tales book, In the Night Garden.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Peter Sís
Peter Sís, two-time Caldecott Honor artist (for Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei and Tibet: Through the Red Box) draws from his own childhood in his latest book, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Eric Carle
Four decades ago, Eric Carle teamed up with Bill Martin Jr. to create the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, which the author wrote during one extraordinarily creative half-hour ride on the Long Island Rail Road.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins sold her first verse book, Crank, just on the first 75 pages—and without an agent. Since then she has written three additional books—all in verse—dealing with heavy subjects such as teen drug addiction and suicide. Here she speaks with Bookshelf about the power of her format, why her readers trust her so much, and her latest book, Glass (McElderry).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Robin Brande
Robin Brande's debut YA novel, Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature (Knopf) shines a white-hot spotlight on the debate between evolution and creationism and how a thoughtful high school freshman comes to grips with her feelings about religion, science and doing the right thing.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Chris Crutcher
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Philip Reeve
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Spring 2007 Flying Starts: Melissa Marr
To the list of authors with eyebrow-raising credentials, add Melissa Marr, whose Wicked Lovely was published by HarperCollins: in high school, she was voted “most likely to end up in jail.” And she has the yearbook picture to prove it.
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Spring 2007 Flying Starts: Lizabeth Zindel
Lizabeth Zindel grew up in a literary family that included father Paul Zindel, a former high school chemistry teacher who became a Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright and young adult author.
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Spring 2007 Flying Starts: Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd styled herself as a writer from the age of seven, when she began embroidering biblical stories as a Catholic school student in London. After university she went into publishing, and then to work for PEN, along the way writing columns, articles, and short stories, and editing two anthologies.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Jerry Spinelli
Bookshelf talked to Jerry Spinelli, author of Newbery winner Maniac Magee and Newbery Honor Book Wringer, about his follow-up to Stargirl: the forthcoming Love, Stargirl (Knopf).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Mini Grey
Bookshelf talked with Mini Grey about her new picture book, Ginger Bear (Knopf).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Nancy Garden
It's been 25 years since the publication of Nancy Garden's groundbreaking novel Annie on My Mind, the story of two teen girls in love.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Gary Schmidt
Printz and Newbery Honor winner Gary Schmidt (Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy) mined his Long Island childhood for his latest book, The Wednesday Wars (Clarion). Bookshelf caught up with Schmidt while he was on the road, talking to school kids about his books.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov sashays into the children's book field with Because (Atheneum/Seo), illustrated by longtime friend Vladimir Radunsky. Bookshelf caught up with the dancer recently at his New York studio.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ann. M. Martin
More than two decades ago, Scholastic published the first of Ann M. Martin's The Baby-sitters Club novels, which were initially conceived as a four-book series. Hugely successful, the original series spawned four spinoff series over 15 years, as well as a movie, TV series and a host of sideline items. The publisher has sold 176 million copies of its approximately 250 BSC-related books.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Rick Yancey
On the eve of the publication of Rick Yancey's second book about his extraordinary ordinary hero, Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon (Bloomsbury), PW caught up with the author at his home in Gainesville, Fla., where he now writes fulltime after giving up the career he chronicled in his first book, the bestselling memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS.
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Sealed & Delivered
PW Talks with Rick Yancey.
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Q & A with Cal Ripken Jr.
Earlier this year, Cal Ripken, Jr., the former Baltimore Orioles' shortstop known as baseball's "Ironman" for playing in 2,632 consecutive games, capped his phenomenal career with a first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ruth White
Ruth White won a Newbery Honor in 1997 for Belle Prater’s Boy, a tale of two cousins trying to overcome huge losses, set in a place White knew well: the western Virginia mountains where she grew up.
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