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'How Did I Get to Sesame Street?' Sonia Manzano Speaks to the CBC
Presenting to a full house of CBC members and industry professionals, Sonia Manzano spoke about her pioneering role on the 'Sesame Street,', the future of children's television, and about her new memoir.
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Q & A with Kate Hosford
Kate Hosford's newest picture book, 'Feeding the Flying Fanellis,' is a collection of poems narrated by a circus chef.
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Jane Goodall Celebrates World Peace Day in New York City
On Monday, primatologist and human and animal rights activist Jane Goodall met with a small circle of book industry professionals and other friends and associates to celebrate the publication of her latest book, and World Peace Day.
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A Celebration of Seuss
At Random House headquarters on September 10, the team behind the publication of the 'What Pet Should I Get?' spoke first-hand about the process, while also sharing anecdotes and little-known facts about Geisel's life and career.
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Four Questions for...Rubin Pingk
Pingk's "uneventful environment" growing up has certainly helped the creator's madcap imagination, on full display in 'Samurai Santa,' in which a young ninja and his crew engage a familiar-looking samurai in a snowball fight.
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A Slightly Peculiar Tour for Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs is tapping friends and family members to join him on his forthcoming "Library of Souls #StayPeculiar" tour, to promote the third volume of his Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.
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Q & A with Erin Bow
In 'The Scorpion Rules,' Erin Bow envisions a world four centuries from now, in which civilization has fractured into many smaller territories, where peace is maintained by Talis, a ruthless AI.
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Q & A with April Genevieve Tucholke
The YA author has curated a selection of horror stories entitled Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, which is being released this week.
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Four Questions for...Judd Winick
Known as a cast member on 'The Real World' in 1994, Judd Winick has also had a storied career in comics and television. Releasing on September 1 is the inaugural volume in a new children's graphic novel series, Hilo.
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Q & A with Erin Bowman
Erin Bowman had always dreamed of writing her own western novel, but it wasn't until her husband regaled her with the legend of the Lost Dutchman mine in the aptly named Superstition Mountains that she found the spark for 'Vengeance Road.'
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Obituary: Ann McGovern
Prolific children’s author, collage artist, and world traveler Ann McGovern died on Saturday, August 8, at her home in New York City. She was 85.
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Q & A with Ursula Vernon
Ursula Vernon has a new series debuting this month, Hamster Princess, starting with 'Harriet the Invincible,' and her first standalone novel, 'Castle Hangnail.'
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Q & A with Alison McGhee
Alison McGhee's most recent book, 'Firefly Hollow,' is a middle-grade novel about a lonely boy and a vole, cricket, and firefly, kindred restless spirits who first find each other – and then try to find where they belong.
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Mélanie Watt’s 'Bug in a Vacuum'
The author of popular series starring Scaredy Squirrel and Chester the cat, Mélanie Watt showcases a considerably smaller creature in 'Bug in a Vacuum,' due out next month from Tundra Books.
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Q & A with Patrice Kindl
Set a year after the events in Patrice Kindl's beguiling 'Keeping the Castle,' 'A School for Brides' has opened in the same damp hamlet of Lesser Hoo.
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M.T. Anderson Writes History... in Four Movements
What would inspire a novelist whose young adult fiction has won the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and two Printz Honors to take on the history of the Russian revolution and a composer at work during the siege of Leningrad?
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Q & A with Abby Hanlon
First-grader Dory makes an actual friend in a Abby Hanlon's 'Dory and the Real True Friend,' the sequel to last fall's 'Dory Fantasmagory.'
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Two Authors Confront Race Issues in New YA Novel
When Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely sat down for a beer last year, tackling one of our nation's most deeply entrenched problems was not at the top of their agenda.
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From Reading to Wearing: Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Book Jacket Jacket
Author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal gives new meaning to the term "face out," when it comes to maximizing the chances of consumers seeing her book covers prominently displayed.
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Four Questions for Antoinette Portis
Antoinette Portis's 'Wait,' is an affectionate look at a mother who's in a hurry and a toddler who says "Wait!"
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