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A Lion-Sized Leap from Art Director to Author
In spring 2016, Atheneum will publish Simon and Schuster art director Lucy Ruth Cummins debut solo picture book, 'A Hungry Lion: Or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals.'
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Q & A with Robin LaFevers
'Mortal Heart' is the final book in the Robin LaFevers's His Fair Assassin trilogy, which centers on the mysterious convent of St. Mortain in a gritty, carefully detailed alternate 15th-century Brittany.
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Patrick Ness Moves to HarperTeen
HarperCollins has acquired North American rights to Patrick Ness’s 'The Rest of Us Just Live Here,' a YA novel due out in fall 2015, and a second, stand-alone novel.
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Q & A with Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg's archly titled new picture book, 'The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie,' takes a close-up, unusual look at a domesticated hamster's trials and tribulations.
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Rick Riordan Fans Celebrate Percy Jackson
"I just love sitting in this room with people who understand my references," a young Rick Riordan fan said during a sold-out author appearance at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, Calif., which housed more than 1,200 fans.
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Celebrating Shel Silverstein: Five Book Birthdays
Editor Antonia Markiet has been chief caretaker of the Shel Silverstein catalogue since 2001 – a role in which, she says, she aims to keep the late author-illustrator's titles "fresh and available."
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Q & A with Ann M. Martin
'Rain Reign,' by Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin, centers on Rose, a fifth grader with high-functioning autism, who takes solace in her bond with Rain, a stray dog found by her mechanic father.
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Q & A with Bob Shea and Lane Smith
The hero of Bob Shea and Lane Smith's latest picture book, 'Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads,' rides (very slowly) into a town plagued by a trio of terrible criminals.
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Obituary: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Author Zilpha Keatley Snyder, who received three Newbery Honors for her middle-grade novels, including 'The Egypt Game,' has died. She was 87.
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Candlewick to Publish New Kate DiCamillo Novel in Spring 2016
On top of acting as the Library of Congress' 2014–2015 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and launching a new chapter book series, Kate DiCamillo has finished writing a new novel.
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Four Questions for Garth Nix
'Clariel' is the first novel about Garth Nix's Old Kingdom in more than a decade. It's a prequel set 600 years before the original trilogy, which helps to establish some of the background for the later books.
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Q & A with Eugene Yelchin
Eugene Yelchin's new book, 'Arcady's Goal,' is inspired by his father, a talented soccer player and coach during Stalin's reign.
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The View from Mt. Olympus: Rick Riordan's Series Finale
It's a week before the release of 'Blood of Olympus,' and the excitement is building: readers everywhere are eager to get their hands on the final installment in Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series.
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Tales from the Slush Pile – Archived!
Tales from the Slush Pile, drawn by author-illustrator Ed Briant. Though the strip has been appearing weekly for the past nine years, we’ve had no index page for it until... now!
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Q & A with Rick Yancey
'The Infinite Sea' by Rick Yancey is one of the most anticipated sequels of the year, picking up where 'The 5th Wave' left off, and being published just as the film version of that book begins production.
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More Mysteries from Pseudonymous Bosch
Author Pseudonymous Bosch returns to bookshelves with 'Bad Magic,' the first title in a mystery-adventure trilogy that features Clay, the younger brother of Max-Ernest from the Secret books.
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Q & A with Ben Tripp
Ben Tripp, author of zombie novels and the son of illustrator Wallace Tripp has written a YA adventure novel, 'The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, His Horse Midnight, A Mysterious Princess, and Sundry Magical Persons Besides.'
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Q & A with Molly Idle
In Molly Idle's 'Flora and the Penguin,' the sequel to 'Flora and the Flamingo,' Flora exchanges her bathing suit for ice skates and ruffles the feathers of a new avian friend.
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Over the Reading Rainbow: PW Talks with LeVar Burton
It was inevitable that LeVar Burton would move beyond promoting books written by others and write his own children's book.
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Moose Gets on Paul O. Zelinsky's Back Once Again
In honor of the comically strong-willed star of 'Z Is for Moose,' written by Kelly Bingham and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, Caldecott Medalist Zelinsky designed a Moose-inspired pattern.



