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BEA 2015: Barry Lyga: Merging Three Creative Minds
An actor, a Hollywood producer, and a bestselling author have pooled their talents to create a YA novel set on a future Earth plagued by environmental collapse and mass poverty.
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BEA 2015: Carolyn Mackler: Linking Together Significant Moments
Life is a series of moments. And some of the most memorable ones—good or bad—come during high school.
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Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann: A Creative Collaboration
The wife-husband creative team who first collaborated on 2012's "Oh, No!" has arrived at BEA to talk about their latest work together, "Bulldozer's Big Day" (Atheneum, May).
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BEA 2015: Gwenda Bond: Placing Lois Lane in the Spotlight
Since her 1938 debut, Lois Lane has played pivotal roles in an array of comics, movies, and TV shows.
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Four Questions for… Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton's first book, 'Tiny Pretty Things,' is the story of three ballerinas from diverse backgrounds at a competitive Manhattan ballet school.
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BEA 2015: Mélanie Watt: Not a Squirrel or a Cat—It's a Bug
The author of series starring Scaredy Squirrel and Chester the cat, Mélanie Watt showcases a considerably smaller creature in "Bug in a Vacuum" (Tundra Books, Aug.).
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BEA 2015: Ben Hatke: His First for Early Readers
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it fueled the imagination of Ben Hatke, and sparked his graphic novel "Little Robot" (Roaring Brook/First Second, Sept.).
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John Green to Crash Course Fans: 'Read Your Boring Textbooks'
When John Green is asked if he's aware that high school students watch his Crash Course videos in lieu of reading textbooks, his response was adamant: "They should read their boring textbooks."
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Jules Feiffer in Conversation with Neil Gaiman
Jules Feiffer and Neil Gaiman, whose careers have spanned genres including writing for adults, children, and comics, spent an evening in conversation at the 92nd Y in New York City on May 14.
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Jay Asher's '50 States Against Bullying' Tour in Photos
Jay Asher, author of 'Thirteen Reasons Why,' the longtime bestseller that confronts the topics of teen suicide and bullying, took the book, and his message #ReasonsWhyYouMatter, on the road.
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Q & A with Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville, author of over 100 books for children, releases two new novels in June.
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In Brief: May 7, 2015
The week in photos from children's book events across the country.
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Obituary: Marcia Brown
Author-illustrator Marcia Brown, the much-lauded recipient of three Caldecott Medals and six Caldecott Honors, among other accolades, died on April 28. She was 96.
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Jewell Parker Rhodes on Diversity and Character-Driven Stories
Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes kept booksellers at Children’s Institute 3 spellbound during her closing keynote, about the next civil rights frontier: diversity.
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Maryland Children’s Literature Festival Building Lifelong Readers
On April 24 and 25, Frostburg, Md., hosted its 33rd annual Spring Festival of Children’s Literature.
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In Brief: April 30, 2015
This week, authors and indie booksellers “woof” it up in Massachusetts, readers enjoy an author visit for dessert; an author is “spied” in a not-so-incognito moment; and an illustrator imagines a different kind of tree “trunk."
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Adrian Fogelin Moves On from Her Neighborhood Novels
Adrian Fogelin's Neighborhood sequence draws to a close in 'Some Kind of Magic,' the sixth installment, which Peachtree is releasing this month.
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Obituary: Jonathan Lanman
Jonathan Lanman, longtime children's book editor and former v-p and editorial director at Atheneum Books for Young Readers, died on April 19. He was 62.
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Q & A with Sarah Darer Littman
In Sarah Darer Littman's latest YA novel, 'Backlash,' an online crush who isn't what he seems pushes a 15-year-old to the brink of self-destruction, and her former best friend documents her collapse on Facebook.
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Q & A with Melissa Marr
Melissa Marr recently created her very first picture book, 'Bunny Roo, I Love You,' for a very special audience: her adopted son Kaden, who was born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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