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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Lucy Hawking
George’s Secret Key to the Universe is the first book in a trilogy co-authored by arguably the world’s most renowned theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, his daughter Lucy, and French physicist Christophe Galfard. Bookshelf caught up with Lucy Hawking in the midst of a whirlwind international book tour.
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Q&A with Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
To mark the release of Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (Disney Editions), the final volume in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s saga about Peter before he was Pan, the authors kicked off a national tour, beginning with an appearance this week in Barry’s hometown: Miami, Florida.
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Q&A with Matthew Reinhart
A q&a with the creator of the new Star Wars pop-up.
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Q&A with Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron, best known as an author of adult novels (The City of Your Final Destination; Leap Year) and short story collections (The Half You Don’t Know: Selected Stories) has written a smart and elegant novel under the Francis Foster imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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On the Road with Deborah Wiles
Author Deborah Wiles tells PW that touring for a YA novel is not just about selling books: it’s about getting kids interested in reading them.
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Q&A with Ellen Emerson White
Ellen Emerson White was an 18-year-old freshman at Tufts University when she wrote her first novel, Friends for Life, a prep school murder mystery that was published in 1983.
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PW Talks with Jack Gantos
I Am Not Joey Pigza is the fourth book in Jack Gantos' series about a hyperactive hero for our times. Bookshelf caught up with the author for a chat about Joey's future.
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Giving Monsters a Voice
Turning traditional fairy tales inside out, Tiptree Award—winner Valente lets witches, demons and beasts tell their own stories of seeking—and not always finding—happily ever after. The tone of In the Cities of Coins and Spice is much darker than the first Orphan’s Tales book, In the Night Garden.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Peter Sís
Peter Sís, two-time Caldecott Honor artist (for Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei and Tibet: Through the Red Box) draws from his own childhood in his latest book, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Eric Carle
Four decades ago, Eric Carle teamed up with Bill Martin Jr. to create the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, which the author wrote during one extraordinarily creative half-hour ride on the Long Island Rail Road.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins sold her first verse book, Crank, just on the first 75 pages—and without an agent. Since then she has written three additional books—all in verse—dealing with heavy subjects such as teen drug addiction and suicide. Here she speaks with Bookshelf about the power of her format, why her readers trust her so much, and her latest book, Glass (McElderry).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Robin Brande
Robin Brande's debut YA novel, Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature (Knopf) shines a white-hot spotlight on the debate between evolution and creationism and how a thoughtful high school freshman comes to grips with her feelings about religion, science and doing the right thing.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Chris Crutcher
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Philip Reeve
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Spring 2007 Flying Starts: Melissa Marr
To the list of authors with eyebrow-raising credentials, add Melissa Marr, whose Wicked Lovely was published by HarperCollins: in high school, she was voted “most likely to end up in jail.” And she has the yearbook picture to prove it.
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Spring 2007 Flying Starts: Lizabeth Zindel
Lizabeth Zindel grew up in a literary family that included father Paul Zindel, a former high school chemistry teacher who became a Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright and young adult author.
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Spring 2007 Flying Starts: Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd styled herself as a writer from the age of seven, when she began embroidering biblical stories as a Catholic school student in London. After university she went into publishing, and then to work for PEN, along the way writing columns, articles, and short stories, and editing two anthologies.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Jerry Spinelli
Bookshelf talked to Jerry Spinelli, author of Newbery winner Maniac Magee and Newbery Honor Book Wringer, about his follow-up to Stargirl: the forthcoming Love, Stargirl (Knopf).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Mini Grey
Bookshelf talked with Mini Grey about her new picture book, Ginger Bear (Knopf).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Nancy Garden
It's been 25 years since the publication of Nancy Garden's groundbreaking novel Annie on My Mind, the story of two teen girls in love.
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