Author Interviews

Maribeth Boelts is a well-known name to teachers and librarians who work with young children. They use her gentle, tender stories to teach children important life lessons, as well as to enhance [...]

Few debut novels collect the kind of accolades that The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus has. The title has been named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best [...]

The call came at 6:42 in the morning on January 27, 2020. THE call. The call every author hopes to receive but few do. It was the call from the Newbery committee telling him he had done it. Jerry [...]

“Oge is a shorter nickname for my full name,” shares Caldecott Honor author/illustrator Oge Mora. “It translates in English to ‘God’s time is always best.’ Oge on its own means [...]

He sat alone. The bench he had once shared with his wife looked into Kao Kalia Yang’s yard, but the solitary man did not see the yard. He saw and felt only emptiness. Children do not always [...]

“Once there was an ant. A really mean ant.” So begins the newest book from author Arthur Yorinks and illustrator Sergio Ruzzier entitled One Mean Ant (Candlewick Press, 2020) that follows a mean [...]

It is the middle of winter, and school is back in session after a long holiday break. Teachers and librarians may be ready to hit the books, but some students may not have mentally returned from [...]

“I’ve wanted to be a writer since at least as far back as third grade,” says Kate Milford, a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author. “I can date so precisely because I have the [...]