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Fall 2013 Flying Starts: Aaron Becker
In Aaron Becker's wordless adventure, "Journey," the power of imagination and a red marker lead a lonely girl into a series of magical realms.
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Fall 2013 Flying Starts: Sustaining Flight
For more than a quarter of a century, PW has been looking at each season's crop of new children’s writers and illustrators and singling out those whose debut works were particularly noteworthy.
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YA Author Ned Vizzini Dies at 32
Ned Vizzini, a multi-talented writer celebrated for his young adult novels and television work, died on Thursday, December 19, in New York City, at the age of 32.
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Obituary: Lila Perl
Children's author Lila Perl, who earned warm praise and several awards in a career that produced more than 60 works of both fiction and nonfiction, has died. She was 92.
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Q & A with Laurie Halse Anderson
To write her latest YA novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, Laurie Halse Anderson tapped into some dark corners of her past.
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Q & A with Cokie Roberts
Author and broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts has written her first children's book, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies.
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Barbara Park Remembered
Author Barbara Park died on November 15 at age 66, after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Here, some of those with whom she enjoyed lengthy professional and personal relationships pay tribute.
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Q & A with Alison Lester
In Sophie Scott Goes South, Alison Lester recreates her journey from Australia to Antarctica aboard the Aurora Australis through the diary entries of a fictional nine-year-old girl whose father is captain of the ship.
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NBA Young People's Literature Medalist Cynthia Kadohata: On a Streak of 'Luck'
Luck can be found in the title of Cynthia Kadohata's latest novel, The Thing About Luck, which has just won the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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Kinney and Pilkey Team Up for Scholastic Webcast
Two bestselling children's book creators – Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney and Captain Underpants's Dav Pilkey – will star in a free live webcast on January 15.
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Junie B. Jones Creator Barbara Park Dies at 66
Children’s author Barbara Park, best-known as the creator of irrepressible kindergartner Junie B. Jones, died on Friday, November 15 after a long battle with cancer.
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Jan Brett and Margaret Frith Mark 25 Years Together
In an era when authors often publish with multiple houses and work with more than one editor, Margaret Frith's quarter-century of editing Jan Brett's picture books is a pleasant anomaly.
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Rowell Receives a 'Minnesota Nice' Welcome in St. Paul
Two months after being disinvited by the Anoka County Library and the Anoka-Hennepin school district from speaking about her YA novel, Eleanor & Park, author Rainbow Rowell finally made the trip from her home in Omaha to Minnesota.
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250 Children's Books and Counting: A Conversation with Tomie dePaola
In 2015 Tomie dePaola will celebrate his 50th year in publishing and his 40th writing and illustrating his award-winning tales of Strega Nona.
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Q & A with Chip Kidd
Superstar book jacket designer Chip Kidd's new book, Go, is a graphic design handbook for kids.
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Obituary: Ann Jonas
Ann Jonas, author and illustrator of numerous picture books, died in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on September 29 at the age of 81.
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Q & A with Elisha Cooper and Brian Floca
When we discovered that veteran author-illustrators Elisha Cooper and Brian Floca both had fall picture books about trains, we knew we had to find out why trains, why now, and what they thought of each other's work.
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The House of Riordan: An Update
New house, new city, new book: Rick Riordan's 2013 trifecta is worthy of any hero of Olympus.
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Q & A with Kat Falls
In Kat Falls's newly released YA novel, Inhuman, first in the Fetch trilogy, 16-year-old Lane deals with the spread of a virus that causes humans to mutate into animals.
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Grim Tales, Mermaid Eggs, and a Horrible, Horrible Boy: A Studio Visit with Sophie Blackall and John Bemelmans Marciano
Studio-mates Sophie Blackall and John Bemelmans Marciano are releasing their first collaborative effort, The 9 Lives of Alexander Baddenfield.
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