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Q & A with Lora Senf
In 'The Clackity' by debut author Lora Senf, 12-year-old Evie Von Rathe journeys into a terrifying supernatural world populated by ghosts and witches.
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Four Questions for Eileen Grimes
Eileen Grimes, a former high school teacher and the founder of the company Loved as You Are, is sharing her book 'The Us Journal: A Parent-Child Journey of Love and Discovery' with children and caregives in Uvalde, Tex., to help families process the recent school shooting.
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Q & A with JaNay Brown-Wood
PW spoke with JaNay Brown-Wood about how her early school experiences turned her into a writer, and when she discovered her calling to become a teacher.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Chioma Ebinama
The last year has been filled with milestones for Nigerian American illustrator and fine artist Chioma Ebinama.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Andrew Joseph White
Andrew Joseph White has been writing since before he could write; that passion blossomed into a goal to finish a full-length book at an early age, finally leading to the release of his debut novel, 'Hell Followed with Us,' this month.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Julian Randall
Twenty years in the making, 'Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa' marks Julian Randall’s middle grade debut with the first in a series that meshes historical elements of the 1950s Trujillo dictatorship with Dominican mythology.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Judy Lin
Debut author Judy Lin has harbored a love of mythological worlds and magic since she was a child, browsing the aisles in Taiwan bookstores, always gravitating toward Japanese and Celtic folklore.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Carl Joe Williams
According to debut children’s book illustrator Carl Joe Williams ('Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year' by Kathy Z. Price), art has been part of his life from the beginning.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Camille Gomera-Tavarez
The inspirations for Camille Gomera-Tavarez’s widely praised debut collection 'High Spirits: Short Stories on Dominican Diaspora'—her far-flung family and its lore, her interest in the art of bookmaking, her admiration for favorite authors’ work—were always on the edge of her mind; she just didn’t know it until she got to college.
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Spring 2022 Children’s Flying Starts
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.
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Four Questions for Melanie Crowder
Melanie Crowder is the award-winning author of several young adult and middle grade novels. 'Jumper' is her first contemporary YA novel.
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Four Questions for Juliana Goodman
Juliana Goodman's debut YA novel 'The Black Girls Left Standing' follows 16-year-old Beau investigating the death of her older sister Katia at the hands of the police.
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Soapbox: Show Me the Funny Girls
Author Margaret Finnegan argues for equal time and attention given to humorous books for middle graders with female protagonists.
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Pride 2022: Interviews with Authors on Their LGBTQ+ YA Novels
Wrapping up our series of interviews in honor of Pride Month, we asked the creators of five YA books about centering queer youth in their stories, visibility in literature, and their hopes for the future of LGBTQ+ children's books.
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Q & A with Matthew Cordell
PW spoke with Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell about the newest entry in his series of early readers, Cornbread and Poppy, and the lure of eccentric characters.
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In Conversation: Jyoti Rajan Gopal and Supriya Kelkar
We asked author Jyoti Rajan Gopal and illustrator Supriya Kelkar to interview each other about their debut picture book, 'American Desi,' and the rich diversity of South Asian American identities.
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Pride 2022: Interviews with Authors on Their LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Novels
In honor of Pride Month, we asked the creators of five middle grade books about centering queer youth in their stories, visibility in literature, and their hopes for the future of queer children's books.
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Rodari Renaissance: Italian Children's Book Icon 'Enchants' U.S. Readers 100 Years On
More than a century after his birth, Italian author Gianni Rodari is reaching English-speaking readers via several recent and forthcoming books in translation; the force behind this belated introduction is Brooklyn-based publisher Enchanted Lion.
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Pride 2022: Interviews with Authors on Their LGBTQ+ Picture Books
In honor of Pride Month, we asked the creators of five picture books about centering queer youth in their stories, visibility in literature, and their hopes for the future of queer children’s books.
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National Ambassador Jason Reynolds Returns to In-Person Visits
For the first time since the pandemic started, author Jason Reynolds took to the road as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a program of the Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader.
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