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Q & A with Katherine Applegate
In her bestselling Animorphs series, Katherine Applegate introduced teens with the ability to morph into any animal they touch. She offers a very different take on an animal story in The One and Only Ivan, (Harper).
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YA Author with Huge Wattpad Fan Base Tries Self-Publishing
Despite attracting 13 million readers to her serialized novel, Life's a Witch, on the online writing community Wattpad, aspiring young adult novelist Brittany Geragotelis decided to self-publish, instead of taking the conventional literary route.
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On My Nightstand: David Macaulay's Nighttime Reading
Author, illustrator and Caldecott Medalist David Macaulay describes what's on his bedside table.
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PW Talks with NBA Winner Thanhha Lai
"This is more than I could have ever expected from telling one little story." With those words Thanhha Lai accepted the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature this past Wednesday night.
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Q & A with Colleen Houck
It's been a year of firsts for Colleen Houck: her first novel, Tiger's Curse, the first installment of a five-book series, was the first release from Splinter, Sterling's YA imprint.
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A Horse (Barn) of a Different Color
When pop-up book artist Robert Sabuda moved to Ulster County, 90 miles north of Manhattan, one of his favorite walks took him by a barn, where he often saw horses in a pasture. He bought the property and has dubbed it Ten Horse Art Space, and has a plan to convert the barn into artist studios and gallery space.
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Q & A with Barry Denenberg
As he did in Lincoln Shot!, Barry Denenberg meshes fact and fiction to tell the story of the building of the Titanic and its doomed maiden voyage, in Titanic Sinks! (Viking).
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Obituary: Florence Parry Heide
Florence Parry Heide, author of more than 100 books for children, died at home in Kenosha, Wis., on October 24. She was 92.
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A Conversation with Sam McBratney
To celebrate the reissue of his now-classic book, Guess How Much I Love You in a pop-up edition (with illustrations by the original artist, Anita Jeram), Irish author Sam McBratney visited the U.S. for the first time in a decade and did a whirlwind tour last month.
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Past Meets Present: PW Talks with Kit Bakke
In Dot to Dot, Kit Bakke’s self-published first book for children, 12-year-old Dot comes to terms with her mother’s recent death with some across-the-centuries help from Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
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Q & A with Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater, who has her second big release of the year with The Scorpio Races, which hits bookstore shelves later this month, spoke with Bookshelf in a brief window between traveling on book tours and finishing her next manuscript.
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On My Nightstand: M.T. Anderson's Nighttime Reading
The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.
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Q & A with Meg Wolitzer
Acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer (The Ten-Year Nap; Sleepwalking) returns to writing fiction for younger readers with The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, a tale of three teens from very different families who find themselves immersed in the world of competitive youth Scrabble.
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Q & A with Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright
A talk with Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, co-authors of The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale, set in an actual, centuries-old London inn.
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Q & A with Maile Meloy
Los Angeles-based author Maile Meloy has received plentiful critical kudos for her work as a writer of short stories and novels for adults; now she has written her first novel for a younger audience. Bookshelf caught up with Meloy upon her return to L.A. from a New York City dinner event with booksellers.
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Q & A with Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick follows his 2008 Caldecott Medal-winning novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, with Wonderstruck, which clocks in at 640 pages, 100 pages longer than Hugo, and looks like it's going to be just as big a hit.
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Obituary: William Sleator
Renowned science fiction writer William Sleator, a master of the macabre who wrote primarily for young adults, died on August 3 at age 66. Sleator was best known for creating an offbeat blend of real science, horror, and psychological suspense.
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YA Authors Kick Off Tour of Rural South
Starting Thursday, August 4, at Asheville, N.C.’s Malaprop's Bookstore, three Southern YA authors will be touring together in support of small-town book lovers, the kind perennially overlooked by author tours.
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Q & A with Lane Smith
Lane Smith's latest book, Grandpa Green, is about as far away in tone from his last, It's a Book, as is possible. He spoke with Bookshelf about memory and mortality from his home in Connecticut.
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Kadir Nelson: The Accidental Historian
Kadir Nelson is at an enviable point in a brilliant career. Two-time Caldecott Honoree, he is the go-to illustrator for an array of Hollywood stars with picture book projects—Will Smith, Spike Lee, Debbie Allen. He's worked on films with Steven Spielberg, designed an album cover for Michael Jackson, and a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service.
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