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Kinney and Pilkey Team Up for Scholastic Webcast
Two bestselling children's book creators – Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney and Captain Underpants's Dav Pilkey – will star in a free live webcast on January 15.
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Junie B. Jones Creator Barbara Park Dies at 66
Children’s author Barbara Park, best-known as the creator of irrepressible kindergartner Junie B. Jones, died on Friday, November 15 after a long battle with cancer.
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Jan Brett and Margaret Frith Mark 25 Years Together
In an era when authors often publish with multiple houses and work with more than one editor, Margaret Frith's quarter-century of editing Jan Brett's picture books is a pleasant anomaly.
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Rowell Receives a 'Minnesota Nice' Welcome in St. Paul
Two months after being disinvited by the Anoka County Library and the Anoka-Hennepin school district from speaking about her YA novel, Eleanor & Park, author Rainbow Rowell finally made the trip from her home in Omaha to Minnesota.
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250 Children's Books and Counting: A Conversation with Tomie dePaola
In 2015 Tomie dePaola will celebrate his 50th year in publishing and his 40th writing and illustrating his award-winning tales of Strega Nona.
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Q & A with Chip Kidd
Superstar book jacket designer Chip Kidd's new book, Go, is a graphic design handbook for kids.
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Obituary: Ann Jonas
Ann Jonas, author and illustrator of numerous picture books, died in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on September 29 at the age of 81.
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Q & A with Elisha Cooper and Brian Floca
When we discovered that veteran author-illustrators Elisha Cooper and Brian Floca both had fall picture books about trains, we knew we had to find out why trains, why now, and what they thought of each other's work.
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The House of Riordan: An Update
New house, new city, new book: Rick Riordan's 2013 trifecta is worthy of any hero of Olympus.
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Q & A with Kat Falls
In Kat Falls's newly released YA novel, Inhuman, first in the Fetch trilogy, 16-year-old Lane deals with the spread of a virus that causes humans to mutate into animals.
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Grim Tales, Mermaid Eggs, and a Horrible, Horrible Boy: A Studio Visit with Sophie Blackall and John Bemelmans Marciano
Studio-mates Sophie Blackall and John Bemelmans Marciano are releasing their first collaborative effort, The 9 Lives of Alexander Baddenfield.
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Q & A with William Wegman
William Wegman is and his silvery Weimaraners are back with Flo & Wendell, a goofy, winsome sister-and-brother, the first of a number of books he's signed on to do with Dial.
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Q & A with Todd Strasser
Todd Strasser drew from his own childhood to write Fallout, about a father who builds the only bomb shelter in the neighborhood as the Cold War heats up in 1962.
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Q & A with Holly Black
In her new novel, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black takes on a topic that might seem to have been done to death – vampires – but somehow she's produced another winner.
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Q & A with Peter Brown
In Peter Brown's Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, the eponymous feline shuns drab Victorian convention, trading his top hat and coat for a naked romp through the jungle.
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Q & A with Gris Grimly
PW talked to illustrator Gris Grimly about his version Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the perils of tackling a story after so many others have had a go at it.
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Q & A with Nancy Farmer
Eleven years after her National Book Award-winning The House of the Scoprion, Nancy Farmer has published a sequel, The Lord of Opium.
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Q & A with Lois Duncan
Duncan's Debutante Hill is the first YA classic be to reissued by Ig Publishing's new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books.
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Cassandra Clare Talks ‘Mortal Instruments,’ Movie Releases, and More
The author is gearing up for the highly anticipated August 21 big-screen release of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on her 2007 debut.
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Q & A with Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston
Although Melissa de la Cruz's husband, Michael Johnston, has been collaborating on all of her YA novels since the first book in the Blue Bloods series, his name has never appeared on the jackets along with his wife's – until now.
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