Author Interviews

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 [...]

“Being a published author is something I wanted since I was a kid,” shares award-winning author Alan Gratz. However, it took the birth of his own child to make that desire a reality. “I was just [...]

Who would have thought that a fourth-grade boy who traced comic strips from the newspaper would one day create wildly popular graphic novels about cats in space, and a picture book about a little [...]

“Remembering the mistakes of the past will hopefully create a more enlightened, tolerant, and peaceful future.” —Author’s Note, The Night Diary From nearly the beginning of time, people [...]

Everyone can agree that Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar (World Publishing Company, 1969) is pure gold. With its simple storyline, massive white space, bold colors, interactive [...]

The Stuff of Stars (Candlewick Press, 2018). The title of this picture book sounds so esoteric. Is it about evolution? Astronomy? Life? Actually it is about all of that. And it all began not with [...]

For decades there has been a lack of choices for books featuring diverse characters created by diverse authors and illustrators. In response, We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) was created to bring [...]