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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Jordan Sonnenblick
Bookshelf talks with Jordan Sonnenblick about his new novel, Notes from the Midnight Driver (Scholastic).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Chris Van Allsburg
Bookshelf talks with Chris Van Allsburg about his new picture book Probuditi! (Houghton)
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Life Lessons
PW Talks with Jordan Sonnenblick
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PW Talks With Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is not yet a household name in America—perhaps because her last name (pronounced "Mc-cork-re-uhn) is a mouthful.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Patricia McCormick
Bookshelf talks with Patricia McCormick about her new novel, Sold (Hyperion).
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Q & A with Barbara McClintock
PW talks with Barbara McClintock about her new picture book, Adèle & Simon (FSG/Foster)
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Patricia MacLachlan
PW talks to Patricia MacLachlan about Grandfather’s Dance (HarperCollins/Cotler), which brings to a close the five-book series that began with Sarah, Plain and Tall.
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Sarah, for the Very Last Time: PW Talks with Patricia MacLachlan
PW Talks with Patricia MacLachlan
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Peter McCarty
PW talks with Peter McCarty about his new picture book, Moon Plane (Holt).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Sarah Mylnowski
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Spring 2006 Flying Starts: Charlie Price
"Mental illness and addiction and writing—don't they go together? Seems like a perfect fit to me," says Charlie Price when asked how the idea for Dead Connection (Roaring Brook/Brodie) came about. His debut novel, which revolves around the disappearance of a high school cheerleader, is peopled with characters from society's fringes: a borderline psychotic 22-year-old, who may have seen the cheerleader leaving school the day of her disappearance; an alcoholic cop; a loner teen who spends his days in the local cemetery communicating with dead children.
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Spring 2006 Flying Starts: Catherine Murdock
The idea for Catherine Gilbert Murdock's first novel came in a dream. She saw a girl playing football against a boy she was in love with. "It was such a graphic image—I saw her in that three-point stance which, at the time, I didn't even know was called a three-point stance—and their eyes met across the line of scrimmage," Murdock recalls.
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Spring 2006 Flying Starts: Sara Varon
Sara Varon never really aspired to having a children's book published. So she's doubly surprised these days that her picture book, Chicken and Cat (Scholastic Press) has attracted a number of admirers in the children's book world.
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Spring 2006 Flying Starts: Dana Reinhardt
When Dana Reinhardt set out to write A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life (Random/Lamb), she knew she wanted to write something about Jewish identity that didn't have anything to do with the Holocaust or anti-Semitism. "I knew I wanted the novel to be about an adopted girl who discovers her biological mother is Jewish, and I knew that sometime during the course of the novel the mother would die. But that's all I knew," the author reflects.
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Spring 2006 Flying Starts: Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge's Fly by Night (HarperCollins) is a fantasy/comedy, centering on plucky heroine Mosca Mye and her passionate love of words. That passion is no coincidence, as Hardinge herself is a firm believer in the very real magic of the printed page.
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Spring 2006 Flying Starts: Frank Portman
Imagine this scene. You're in a rock band that has a cult following. Some passionate young corporate rep comes to one of your New York City club gigs and offers you a… book contract? That's pretty much what happened to Frank Portman. Welcome to the true story of his rock and roll road to publishing his first YA novel, King Dork (Delacorte) about a teenage kid obsessed with forming his own band, scoring with girls, attacking the high-school cult of The Catcher in the Rye and unraveling the mystery behind his father's death.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Ahmet Zappa
Frustrated by a learning disability that made reading difficult, Ahmet Zappa, son of legendary rock musician Frank Zappa, dropped out of school in eighth grade. So nobody is more surprised than he is about the release of his first novel, The Monstrous Memoirs of A Mighty McFearless (Random), a heavily illustrated story about monster hunts, a kidnapping and a daring rescue.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Pete Hautman
PW talks with National Book Award winner Pete Hautman about his new YA novel, Rash (S&S), a black comedy set 70 years in the future.
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Safety--at What Cost?
Since winning the National Book Award in 2005 for Godless, this Minnesota native's life has changed, if not dramatically, then mostly for the good. Here he talks about his new YA novel, Rash (S&S), a black comedy set 70 years in the future.
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