05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Jean Craighead George, author of more than 100 books – including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves – died on May 15 at the age of 92. Wendell Minor pays tribute to his friend and longtime collaborator.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers, a Belfast native who has lived in Brooklyn since 2007, is enjoying his greatest U.S. success to date with Stuck, his eighth and most recent picture book. His latest book, The New Sweater, comes out this month. Like other Jeffers titles, it is being released simultaneously with HarperCollins in the U.K. and with Penguin/Philomel in the U.S., thanks to an unusual publishing backstory.
05/16/2012 @ 12:00PM
Distinguished children's book author and noted naturalist Jean Craighead George died on May 15. She was 92. Best known for the Newbery-winning novel Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor title My Side of the Mountain, George penned more than 100 books for young people.
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
In Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World’s Most Celebrated Illustrators, children’s literature historian Leonard S. Marcus interviews a diverse group of artists about everything from their own childhoods to the mechanics of their craft.
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Onstage at a Saturday, May 5 afternoon session during the week-long PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in New York City, David Levithan and Brian Selznick had freewheeling discussion that careened from Selznick’s work specifically to film and literature in general, with plenty of laughs in between.
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
In his rollicking new novel, the space opera A Confusion of Princes, Australian writer Garth Nix, author of the classic Abhorsen Chronicles and the recent Keys to the Kingdom series, introduces a galaxy-spanning empire ostensibly run by the 10 million princes of the title, all working under the rule of a mysterious emperor but, as the protagonist gradually discovers, things are not at all what they seem.
05/09/2012 @ 12:00AM
The day following his death, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has jumped to #14 from #204 on the Amazon bestseller list.
05/08/2012 @ 10:00AM
Legendary author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died in Connecticut on Tuesday, May 8, following a stroke. He was 83.
04/26/2012 @ 03:00PM
How do authors know when romance is working in a novel? Gayle Forman answered that question bluntly: "When I want to have sex with my male character more than my husband," quipped the author of bestselling novels If I Stay and Where She Went.
04/26/2012 @ 03:00PM
Paolo Bacigalupi's first novel for young adults, Ship Breaker, won the Printz Award and placed him firmly on the radar of the YA world. On May 1, he returns to the post-cataclysmic realm of Ship Breaker with The Drowned Cities. The author spoke about the differences between writing for adults and for teens, and the distinction he draws between dystopias and science fiction.
The Roundup for Authors
Publishing news from across the Web
Markus Zusak divulges on his blog.
Letters written between Theodor Geisel and a then-13-year-old aspiring illustrator named Howard Cruse.
An appreciation.
The influence of Judaism on his work
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