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Q & A with Marcia Williams
Bookshelf spoke with Marcia Williams about her new book, My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright: My History of the Second World War, 1939—1945 (Candlewick).
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On the Scene with Darren Shan
It’s the right time of year for books about demons, vampires and other creatures of the night, making the recent U.S. tour for Cirque du Freak and Demonata series author Darren Shan particularly well-timed.
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On Tour with Dave and Ridley
Science Fair, the seventh collaboration between Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, pubbed with a 250,000-copy first printing. The pair then embarked on an eight-city tour over 10 days, including a visit to Good Morning America.
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Q & A with Ellen Klages
TheGreen Glass Sea, winner of the 2007 Scott O’Dell Award, tells the story of the creation of the first atomic bomb through the eyes of Suze and Dewey, two children of scientists working on the project. Bookshelf spoke with Ellen Klages about her sequel, White Sands, Red Menace (Viking), set in Alamogordo, N.M, after the war.
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'Nerd' Night in NYC
Author John Green kicked off his national tour for Paper Towns (Dutton) last Thursday evening at the Barnes & Noble in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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Q & A with Zoë B. Alley and R.W. Alley
Bookshelf spoke with R.W. Alley and Zoë B. Alleyabout their new picture book, There’s a Wolf at the Door (Roaring Brook/Porter).
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Cornelia Funke 'Inks' Her Final Chapter
This month sees the release of Inkdeath (Scholastic/Chicken House), the third and final book in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart trilogy, which began in 2003 with a book of the same name.
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Q & A with M.T. Anderson
M.T. Anderson’s The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I: The Pox Party (Candlewick, 2006), about the coming of age of a young, classically educated slave at the outset of the American Revolution, received both a National Book Award and a Printz Honor. The sequel, The Kingdom on the Waves, is in bookstores.
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Turning Make-Believe into Real Success
Though the books might be about dolls, the creation of the Doll People series has been anything but child’s play. The Runaway Dolls is the third book in Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin and Brian Selznick’s well-received series that began with The Doll People in 2000.
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Q & A with Neil Gaiman
Children's Bookshelf spoke with Neil Gaiman about his new novel, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins).
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Bad Kitty Cleans Up Her Act
In Nick Bruel’s Bad Kitty, the title character Ate homework, Bit Grandma, Clawedthe curtains and performed 23 other naughty deeds. This picture book and a 2007 paper-over-board "cat-nipped" edition teeth marks have together sold more than 75,000 copies. Now this cantankerous cat has some—more or less—good clean fun in Bruel’s early chapter book, Bad Kitty Gets a Bath.
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Q & A with Nancy Werlin
After more than a decade of writing critically acclaimed YA thrillers--including The Rules of Survival, Double Helix and The Killer’s Cousin--Boston-based author Nancy Werlin explores new territory with a novel that blends romance and the supernatural. Impossible (Dial) tells the story of Lucy, an ordinary high school student, who teams up with her family and her best friend Zach to defeat an ancient curse.
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Q & A with Polly Horvath
Bookshelf spoke with Polly Horvath about her new novel, My One Hundred Adventures (Random House/Schwartz & Wade, Sept.).
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Q & A with Lane Smith
Lane Smith’s Madam President (Disney-Hyperion) concerns a girl who approaches every deed—from negotiating a dog/cat treaty to cleaning her room—as the sworn duty of the U.S. Commander in Chief. As the 2008 election approaches, Smith talks about this new picture book and his tongue-in-cheek John, Paul, George and Ben, on the childhood lives of the Founding Fathers.
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Washed Up by 15
The second thriller from former Cosmopolitan (U.K.) editor-in-chief Sam Baker starring fashion journalist Annie Anderson, Deadly Beautiful, takes a hard look at the too often brief careers of teen models, one of whom, Scarlett Ulrich, may be the victim of a serial killer in Japan.
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Spring 2008 Flying Starts: Padma Venkatraman
Padma Venkatraman is a woman of many talents and passions. A lover of science, math, history and literature, she always wanted to be a writer but felt there was more financial security in following a different path. At age 19, she moved from India to the United States to attend graduate school at the College of William and Mary School of Marine Science, and she is currently a professor of oceanography at University of Rhode Island.
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Spring 2008 Flying Starts: Stephanie Bodeen
The Compound was not the first young adult book Stephanie Bodeen wrote. In fact it was her 10th. But although she had published picture books before, she had yet to sell a YA novel. In fact, Bodeen had pretty much decided to quit trying after her agent returned a box of manuscripts to her, telling her they were unsaleable. But then she made another decision. “I decided I'm either a writer or I'm not a writer, so I signed up for National Novel Writing Month and on November 1, I started a young adult novel,” she recalls.
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Spring 2008 Flying Starts: Ingrid Law
Remember your 13th birthday? Chances are it wasn't anything like the ones in the Beaumont family, whose members usher in their 13th year by receiving their “savvy,” or supernatural ability. Such is the magical premise of Ingrid Law's Savvy (Dial/Walden Media).
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Spring 2008 Flying Starts: Sarah Prineas
Sarah Prineas has a young reader of the children's magazine Cricket to thank for the impetus that led to her very splashy debut—a three-book contract, two starred reviews for the first volume, and 13 foreign rights sales. Prineas had written only three lines of a story—A thief is a lot like a wizard. I have quick hands. And I can make things disappear—when she came across a letter to the editor in Cricket from a reader who wanted “more stories with wizards and magic.”
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Q & A with Diana Wynne Jones
Bookshelf spoke with Diana Wynne Jones about her new novel, House of Many Ways (Greenwillow).
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