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Maureen Johnson: The Queen of Teen
YA writer Maureen Johnson has had a very good decade.
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A Loving Tribute: Maurice Sendak on 'My Brother's Book'
Editor Michael di Capua is talking about My Brother's Book, Maurice Sendak's final work, as he looks through the folder he kept for the project.
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Q & A with Lauren DeStefano
Lauren DeStefano's Chemical Garden trilogy of dystopian novels for YA readers paints a harrowing portrait of the unintended and tragic consequences of modern society’s relentless pursuit of perfection.
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Q & A with Shaun Tan
Australian author Shaun Tan's newest title, The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook, is a sketchbook-sized volume of rough work and inspiration for his award-winning books and films.
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Q & A with Michael B. Kaplan
Michael B. Kaplan's heroine returns this month in Betty Bunny Didn't Do It (illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch), which has the crafty rabbit blaming the Tooth Fairy for a broken lamp.
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2013 Caldecott Caps Busy Year for Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen was up early on Monday morning – not because he was expecting a career-changing phone call, but because he had a plane to catch.
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'Pure Shock and Surprise' for 2013 Printz Winner Nick Lake
Nick Lake had been working at home in Oxford England for hours when the phone rang.
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Katherine Applegate on Winning the 2013 Newbery: 'Stunned Disbelief'
Normally Katherine Applegate would have been in her house in San Francisco the morning that "the call" came in.
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Q & A with Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell's YA debut, Eleanor & Park, a love story set in Omaha about two outsiders, hits stores soon. She spoke with PW about realistic romance, the power of music, and not being precious about writing.
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Q & A with Nancy Carpenter
Versatile illustrator Nancy Carpenter spoke with PW about her illustrations for Lucky Ducklings, Eva Moore's story of a group of Montauk townspeople who save five ducklings from a storm drain.
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On the Road with Sarah Dessen
On January 18, a lucky audience in Pittsburgh got a sneak preview of Sarah Dessen's upcoming novel, The Moon and More.
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Obituary: Jan Ormerod
Australian-born author and illustrator Jan Ormerod died in Cambridge, England, on January 23 after a long illness. She was 67.
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Q & A with Ruta Sepetys
The bestselling author of the highly acclaimed debut Between Shades of Gray, has a new historical novel set in New Orleans in 1950.
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Q & A with Sally Gardner
British writer Sally Gardner's fifth novel, Maggot Moon, set in a tyrannical dictatorship called The Motherland, the sort of place Europe might have become had the Nazis won World War II, is already one of the most talked-about books of the year in England, where it recently won the Costa Children's Prize.
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Aaron Frisch, Editor and Author, Dies at 37
Funeral services were held in Minnesota on Saturday morning for children's and YA book author Aaron Frisch, 37, who died tragically and unexpectedly on January 7.
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The Call That Changes Everything – or Not
How does winning the Newbery or Caldecott medal change the lives of the winners? PW caught up with each of the medalists of the past five years to find out.
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Obituary: Gerald McDermott
Author, illustrator, and filmmaker Gerald McDermott died on December 26 at age 71. McDermott wrote and illustrated many picture books, and won the 1975 Caldecott Medal for Arrow to the Sun: A Tale from the Pueblo.
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Q & A with Ben Schrank
Razorbill publisher Ben Schrank's most recent book, Love Is a Canoe, follows a Brooklyn couple with a shaky marriage, an editor trying to bring new life to a beloved backlist title, and the author of that decades-old book, whose wife has died.
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Retelling Alice: 'PW' Talks with A.G. Howard
In her modern-day retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, A.G. Howard puts a gothic spin on the beloved classic, sending 16-year-old Alyssa back through the looking glass to correct the wrongs of her great-great-great grandmother Alice.
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Q & A with Natalie Merchant
Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant's conceptual album Leave Your Sleep featured children's poetry adapted into music and song. Merchant spoke with PW about this ambitious and ongoing project for young readers and listeners.
PW KidsCast: Paul Rudnick
Screenwriter, playwright, and humorist Paul Rudnick discusses his first book for teens, Gorgeous, the enduring allure of royalty and happily-ever-after endings, and the power of humor and wit. Author Photo by Hat Head Studio.
