Author Interviews

“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 [...]

Rodent brothers Louie and Ralphie Ratso think that they must be rough and tough to be cool, but author Kara LaReau uses their hilarious misadventures to debunk that myth and break the stereotype [...]

Author and cartoonist Raina Telgemeier was only in the fourth grade when fear and anxiety began to control her life. Affectionately deemed by many as the Queen of Comics, Telgemeier has recently [...]

Her ears were buzzing. Her knees were buckling. Her mouth was babbling. Author Meg Medina remembers that much about the morning she received “the” call from the Newbery Committee telling her that [...]