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Author James Patterson is again teaming up with Miami Heat guard and best-selling author, Dwyane Wade, to show kids the importance of reading for success in life. The second installment of their [...]

Though he had aspirations to play professional baseball, David Shannon made his mark—literally—in children’s picture books. “I’ve always liked to draw and it always seemed like that’s what I [...]

“My writing career basically started in fifth grade,” says Tom Angleberger, the genius behind the bestselling Origami Yoda series published by Amulet Books. “I won second place in an essay [...]

“I became a writer because I was, and still am, a reader,” says Linda Sue Park, an award-winning author and Newbery Medalist for A Single Shard (Clarian Books, 2001). As a young child, Park began [...]

One of the most creative, award-winning authors and illustrators of children’s books actually never thought much about the medium until he and his wife, Robin Page, started having children. Both [...]

“Until seventh grade, I did not read. I hated reading,” says Mark Fearing, an award-winning author/illustrator. “In seventh grade, my teacher brought me a copy of Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of [...]

Jordan Sonnenblick always knew he wanted to be a writer; well, a writer AND a teacher just like his grandfather. A high school biology teacher and an author of high school biology texts, [...]