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Q & A with Derek Landy
A year ago, 32-year-old Derek Landy was living with his parents on the family farm north of Dublin, teaching karate and working on film scripts, with which he'd had modest success, having seen two of his screenplays produced by the Irish Film Board.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Lauren Myracle
Lauren Myracle has written about everything from a clique of teen witches to a girl whose life changes after a fashion disaster involving her mother's underwear.
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PW Talks With Brian Selznick
Best known for his distinctive work in award-winning picture books like The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley and Eleanor andAmelia Go for a Ride by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Brian Selznick's newest offering is more than just "a departure."
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Joseph Helgerson
Bullies should be warned never to step foot in Joseph Helgerson's imaginative town of Blue Wing, Minn., along the Mississippi River. They may find themselves transformed into a rhinoceros, which happens to be the meal of choice of a rock troll named Bodacious Deepthink. In Horns & Wrinkles (Houghton), Helgerson's first novel, fiesty heroine Claire must use her wits to save her mean cousin Duke from just such a fate.
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Mei Matsuoka
A hamburger boy on the run? Illustrator Mei Matsuoka simply could not resist the artistic possibilities she first saw in the manuscript for Burger Boy (Clarion), Alan Durant's cautionary picture-book tale of junk-food excess. "It really grabbed me as quirky, funny and a little out of the ordinary," she says. "I loved the wacky side of it and as soon as I read [the manuscript] I had images in my head."
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Ellen Klages
In 2002, Ellen Klages was not an aspiring novelist; she had never written a novel. Her metier was science fiction short stories—for grown-ups, not kids. So when Viking editor Sharyn November, who had read some of her published work, approached her at an SF convention and said, "You are a children's writer. You need to write me a children's book," Klages was, understandably, taken aback. "I found myself thinking, 'An editor at Viking wants me to write a book for her? What part of that should I ignore?'
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Barry Lyga
Barry Lyga fell in love with reading through comic books. Although some grownups told him comics would rot his brain unless he outgrew them, neither thing happened. Lyga went to Yale, where he majored in English, then worked for 10 years in comic book publishing. Lyga credits the comics form with teaching him about plotting and character development, lessons he put to use in writing his first book, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (Houghton).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman talked with Bookshelf about her most recent young adult novel, Incantation (Little, Brown). Set during the Spanish Inquisition, the book is narrated by 16-year-old Estrella, who must come to terms with her family’s secret identity and her place within it.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Nancy Carpenter
Bookshelf talked with illustrator Nancy Carpenter about her latest book, 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore, written by Jenny Offill (Random House/Schwartz & Wade).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Tamora Pierce
After leaving the Tortall Realms to write her bestselling stand-alone novel, The Will of the Empress (Scholastic Press, 2005), Tamora Pierce returns to her old stomping grounds with a new series.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Anthony Browne
Bookshelf talked with British author-illustrator Anthony Browne about his latest picture book, Silly Billy (Candlewick)
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With M.T. Anderson
M.T. Anderson’s latest book, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One, The Pox Party (Candlewick, Sept.), is about an African slave, though readers don’t learn that initially.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Jordan Sonnenblick
Bookshelf talks with Jordan Sonnenblick about his new novel, Notes from the Midnight Driver (Scholastic).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Chris Van Allsburg
Bookshelf talks with Chris Van Allsburg about his new picture book Probuditi! (Houghton)
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Life Lessons
PW Talks with Jordan Sonnenblick
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PW Talks With Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is not yet a household name in America—perhaps because her last name (pronounced "Mc-cork-re-uhn) is a mouthful.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Patricia McCormick
Bookshelf talks with Patricia McCormick about her new novel, Sold (Hyperion).
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Q & A with Barbara McClintock
PW talks with Barbara McClintock about her new picture book, Adèle & Simon (FSG/Foster)
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Patricia MacLachlan
PW talks to Patricia MacLachlan about Grandfather’s Dance (HarperCollins/Cotler), which brings to a close the five-book series that began with Sarah, Plain and Tall.
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