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Yang Issues 'Reading Without Walls Challenge'
For years, teachers, librarians, and booksellers have worked to encourage reading by creating booklists that link a popular title to read-alikes. Gene Luen Yang wants to turn that practice inside out.
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Obituary: Barbara Seuling
Children's book author and illustrator Barbara Seuling, a former editor also known for teaching about writing for young people, died September 12 in Lebanon, N.H. of complications from cancer. She was 79.
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Q & A with Jennifer Weiner
Author Jennifer Weiner has written her first book for younger readers, 'The Littlest Bigfoot,' about a misfit human girl, Alice, who rescues and then befriends a Bigfoot girl named Millie, whose hidden world Alice swears to protect.
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Obituary: Anna Dewdney
The children's author-illustrator, whose Llama Llama picture books are million-copy bestsellers, died on September 3 from brain cancer. She was 50.
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Obituary: Brian Wildsmith
British children's author and illustrator Brian Wildsmith, praised for his creative range of style and subject, died on August 31 in Grasse, France. He was 86.
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Q & A with Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey is kicking off his new Captain Underpants spinoff series, Dog Man, with a multi-city Dog-gone Spectacular Superheroes Tour.
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Adam Rex and Christian Robinson Head Back to 'School'
The author-illustrator team interviewed each other about their picture book collaboration, 'School's First Day of School,' which is out in time for back-to-school season.
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Obituary: Joyce Carol Thomas
Award-winning author, poet, and playwright Joyce Carol Thomas, whose works largely focused on family and the African-American experience, died on August 13. She was 79.
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Adam Silvera Returns to Paper Lantern Lit
Novelist Adam Silvera has joined Paper Lantern Lit as community manager, adding another entry to his publishing resumé.
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A 'Fantabulous' Centenary Celebration for Roald Dahl
Penguin Young Readers Group and the Roald Dahl Literary Estate are marking the centennial of his birth with an extensive yearlong commemoration.
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Kinney to Head Abroad for 'Wimpy Kid 11' Tour
This fall, Kinney will head overseas for a tour that will take him to nine countries, in addition to nine markets in the U.S.
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Q & A with Randy Cecil
Randy Cecil has been illustrating picture books since 1996, with 20 titles to his credit; his new book is well over 100 pages – a picture book with the scope of a novel.
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Four Questions for... Cheryl Klein
This fall, Scholastic editor Cheryl Klein moves to the other side of the desk, with her own book, 'The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults.'
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On My Nightstand: Sabaa Tahir's Nighttime Reading
YA author and former 'Washington Post' journalist Sabaa Tahir describes what’s on her bedside table.
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Four Questions for... Adriana Mather
There's an audible howling on the line as Adriana Mather settles in to talk about her debut novel 'How to Hang a Witch' from her Santa Monica home.
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Children's Book Illustrators Pay Tribute to Beatrix Potter
For the 150th anniversary of Potter's birth, Penguin Random House is publishing a collection of tributes by children's book illustrators. Here is a sampling of some of their works.
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Melissa Sweet: Illuminating the Life of E.B. White
Using watercolors, collages, letters, and photos, Sweet portrays a titan of children's literature in 'Some Writer!'
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Lois Lenski Biography Provides Intimate Portrait of an Elusive Author
The University of Oklahoma Press, a scholarly press renowned for its emphasis on history and biography about the Western U.S., is moving in a new direction, with the publication this month of 'Lois Lenski: Storycatcher' by Bobbie Malone.
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Q & A with Beth Revis
For her latest book, 'A World Without You,' Beth Revis swaps space and explosions for a story that is set in the contemporary world.
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Q & A with William Grill
William Grill's 'The Wolves of Currumpaw' continues his interest in the natural world – and man's fraught place in it – but with a new location, and in a new palette.
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