Author Interviews

Rex Ogle’s debut Free Lunch won the 2020 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award and received several starred reviews. In the book, Ogle uses his remarkable storytelling skills to chronicle his [...]

Nic Stone’s 2017 debut novel, Dear Martin, was a New York Times Bestseller, a William C. Morris Award Finalist, an ALAN / Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist—and according to Tia, the educator [...]

Newbery Medal-winning author Paul Fleischman and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Melissa Sweet have collaborated on a unique tribute to language and those who lovingly and imaginatively [...]

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 [...]