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Obituary: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson died October 20 at her home in Newcastle, England. She was 85. In a career that spanned three decades, she wrote more than 20 novels for children and adults.
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Q & A with Kate Thompson
In the past five years, the novels of one English writer have been awarded the Whitbread, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, been shortlisted for the Carnegie, and won Ireland's Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award four times. The writer is Kate Thompson, who concludes her trilogy about trouble on earth and in Tír na n'Óg, the fairy underworld, with The White Horse Trick.
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Andrew Vachss: Fighting Bullies One Book at a Time
Bestselling author Andrew Vachss wonders what the devotees of his inarguably adult hard-boiled crime fiction will think of his new book, Heart Transplant--created in partnership with illustrator Frank Caruso--for which he has reconfigured his detective fiction for a younger audience. Somewhere between graphic novel and picture book, Heart Transplant is aimed at the victims of bullies with the intent of helping the victims and their families deal with the situation effectively.
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Teenage Author of 'Halo' Shares Tales from Her Tour
Eighteen-year-old Alexandra Adornetto has just wrapped up a whirlwind three-week tour to promote Halo, the launch title of her paranormal romance trilogy, released by Feiwel & Friends on August 31. When we spoke with her on one of the final days of her tour, Adornetto gave no hint of road-weariness, but rather exuded boundless enthusiasm about her travels, the fans she's met, and the U.S.
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Making Room for a New Addition: PW Talks with Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham
John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury are two of England’s most honored and beloved author/artists for children. They have been married for 46 years and between them they have created scores of picture books. But until now, they have never done a book together.
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Richard Peck on Writing Through the Revolutions
At last Friday's author breakfast for the New England Independent Booksellers Association's fall conference, former English teacher Richard Peck wowed even the most morning-phobic booksellers with his presentation.
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Obituary: Stuart Hample
Artist and author Stuart Hample, who published several children's books as Stoo Hample, died September 19 at his home in New York City. He was 84.
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Rights Report: September 16
Disney and Offspring Entertainment have bought film rights to Ally Condie's Matched, a futuristic fantasy novel that Dutton is publishing in November, and Stacy Whitman at Lee & Low Books has acquired the first two novels for its Tu Books imprint.
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Obituary: Joan Steiner
Joan Steiner, creator of the Look-Alikes series of books, died September 8 of cancer at her home in Claverack, N.Y. Steiner's first children's book, Look-Alikes, was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 1998. Look-Alikes was named a best book of the year by several publications, including PW; the series sold more than one million copies in 16 languages worldwide.
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Mo Willems, on 'Knuffle Bunny Free'
"Where did the story come from? That's a bit tricky. I certainly spent more time on this than I did on the other Knuffle Bunny books. I think the turning point was realizing this was the last book. In the first story, she explores her neighborhood and in the second book she explores something larger — she goes to school and does the transfer of bunnies between two neighborhoods. The story had to expand further in this third book."
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Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
In Bink & Gollie, two precocious girls who have little in common except for their fertile imaginations are the closest of friends, and embark on a series of adventures. Bink & Gollie's co-authors, Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, at first glance, seem as though they have little in common, but are themselves the closest of friends.
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Q & A with Blue Balliett
Like Lightning Thief author Rick Riordan, Blue Balliett has morphed from popular teacher to popular novelist. Six years ago, she started publishing bestselling mysteries: Chasing Vermeer, followed by The Wright 3 and The Calder Game. Her fourth title is The Danger Box, inspired by Charles Darwin's diary.
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Q & A with Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey scored a huge hit with The Adventures of Captain Underpants and its sequels; that series stars mischievous fourth graders George and Harold, who turn their principal into an underwear-sporting superhero. George and Harold were credited as the authors of The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, a Captain Underpants spinoff. Blue Sky will release these characters’ second graphic novel...
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Melissa Marr Is on a Wicked, Lovely Roll
Like the characters in her five-book Wicked Lovely series, Melissa Marr has endured (and overcome) hardships. She was raped twice—at 14 and again 18—and turned to drugs and boys. Today, the 38-year-old mother of two is married to a former Marine Corps officer; is awaiting the publication of her final Wicked Lovely title, Darkest Mercy, in February 2011.
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Q & A with Kirsten Miller
Kirsten Miller is best known as the author of the Kiki Strike novels, a series following a group of six girls adventuring in New York City. Her latest book, The Eternal Ones, follows the adventures of Haven, a girl from a small southern town who discovers that she might have lived a past life, and that her lover from her last life might be living in New York.
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The One That Almost Got Away
Although the English writer Siobhan Dowd did not start writing novels until her 40s, she proved to be quite prolific – completing four novels in a few years. She also wrote a detailed outline for a fifth novel about a boy, his mother, cancer, and the healing powers of a tree. That manuscript was not finished when Dowd died of breast cancer at age 47 in August 2007...
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In Brief: July 22
First-time author Christine Johnson’s novel, Claire de Lune, about a teenage werewolf, was published by Simon Pulse this past May, and because of the positive responses the book received among book bloggers, Johnson held a contest for bloggers to win the chance to announce the title of the book’s sequel.
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In Praise of 'Chaos': A Profile of Patrick Ness
Many people who now consider themselves evangelists for Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking trilogy initially resisted the first book, The Knife of Never Letting Go, which is narrated by the illiterate but lovable Todd Hewitt, the last boy in a frontier town on a colonized planet, and features a talking dog...
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Q & A with Marla Frazee
A briefcase-toting baby wearing a onesie styled like a business suit is clearly in charge of the household in The Boss Baby. Written and illustrated by Marla Frazee, two-time Caldecott Honoree, The Boss Baby is simple in concept—a new baby takes over a household—but Frazee talks about some of the challenges she met while creating it.
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Q & A with Grace Lin
Over the years, author-illustrator Grace Lin has mined her own childhood for funny, upbeat stories that shed light on the unique experience of growing up Asian-American.
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