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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Gary Schmidt
Printz and Newbery Honor winner Gary Schmidt (Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy) mined his Long Island childhood for his latest book, The Wednesday Wars (Clarion). Bookshelf caught up with Schmidt while he was on the road, talking to school kids about his books.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov sashays into the children's book field with Because (Atheneum/Seo), illustrated by longtime friend Vladimir Radunsky. Bookshelf caught up with the dancer recently at his New York studio.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ann. M. Martin
More than two decades ago, Scholastic published the first of Ann M. Martin's The Baby-sitters Club novels, which were initially conceived as a four-book series. Hugely successful, the original series spawned four spinoff series over 15 years, as well as a movie, TV series and a host of sideline items. The publisher has sold 176 million copies of its approximately 250 BSC-related books.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Rick Yancey
On the eve of the publication of Rick Yancey's second book about his extraordinary ordinary hero, Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon (Bloomsbury), PW caught up with the author at his home in Gainesville, Fla., where he now writes fulltime after giving up the career he chronicled in his first book, the bestselling memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS.
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Sealed & Delivered
PW Talks with Rick Yancey.
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Q & A with Cal Ripken Jr.
Earlier this year, Cal Ripken, Jr., the former Baltimore Orioles' shortstop known as baseball's "Ironman" for playing in 2,632 consecutive games, capped his phenomenal career with a first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ruth White
Ruth White won a Newbery Honor in 1997 for Belle Prater’s Boy, a tale of two cousins trying to overcome huge losses, set in a place White knew well: the western Virginia mountains where she grew up.
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Q & A with Derek Landy
A year ago, 32-year-old Derek Landy was living with his parents on the family farm north of Dublin, teaching karate and working on film scripts, with which he'd had modest success, having seen two of his screenplays produced by the Irish Film Board.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Lauren Myracle
Lauren Myracle has written about everything from a clique of teen witches to a girl whose life changes after a fashion disaster involving her mother's underwear.
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PW Talks With Brian Selznick
Best known for his distinctive work in award-winning picture books like The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley and Eleanor andAmelia Go for a Ride by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Brian Selznick's newest offering is more than just "a departure."
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Joseph Helgerson
Bullies should be warned never to step foot in Joseph Helgerson's imaginative town of Blue Wing, Minn., along the Mississippi River. They may find themselves transformed into a rhinoceros, which happens to be the meal of choice of a rock troll named Bodacious Deepthink. In Horns & Wrinkles (Houghton), Helgerson's first novel, fiesty heroine Claire must use her wits to save her mean cousin Duke from just such a fate.
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Mei Matsuoka
A hamburger boy on the run? Illustrator Mei Matsuoka simply could not resist the artistic possibilities she first saw in the manuscript for Burger Boy (Clarion), Alan Durant's cautionary picture-book tale of junk-food excess. "It really grabbed me as quirky, funny and a little out of the ordinary," she says. "I loved the wacky side of it and as soon as I read [the manuscript] I had images in my head."
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Ellen Klages
In 2002, Ellen Klages was not an aspiring novelist; she had never written a novel. Her metier was science fiction short stories—for grown-ups, not kids. So when Viking editor Sharyn November, who had read some of her published work, approached her at an SF convention and said, "You are a children's writer. You need to write me a children's book," Klages was, understandably, taken aback. "I found myself thinking, 'An editor at Viking wants me to write a book for her? What part of that should I ignore?'
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Fall 2006 Flying Starts: Barry Lyga
Barry Lyga fell in love with reading through comic books. Although some grownups told him comics would rot his brain unless he outgrew them, neither thing happened. Lyga went to Yale, where he majored in English, then worked for 10 years in comic book publishing. Lyga credits the comics form with teaching him about plotting and character development, lessons he put to use in writing his first book, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (Houghton).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman talked with Bookshelf about her most recent young adult novel, Incantation (Little, Brown). Set during the Spanish Inquisition, the book is narrated by 16-year-old Estrella, who must come to terms with her family’s secret identity and her place within it.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Nancy Carpenter
Bookshelf talked with illustrator Nancy Carpenter about her latest book, 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore, written by Jenny Offill (Random House/Schwartz & Wade).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Tamora Pierce
After leaving the Tortall Realms to write her bestselling stand-alone novel, The Will of the Empress (Scholastic Press, 2005), Tamora Pierce returns to her old stomping grounds with a new series.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Anthony Browne
Bookshelf talked with British author-illustrator Anthony Browne about his latest picture book, Silly Billy (Candlewick)
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With M.T. Anderson
M.T. Anderson’s latest book, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One, The Pox Party (Candlewick, Sept.), is about an African slave, though readers don’t learn that initially.
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