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In Conversation: Mo Willems and Dan Santat
We asked three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Mo Willems and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat to discuss their new picture book, 'Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right'—a celebration of individuality—and the joys of collaboration.
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Q & A with Natasha Preston
Natasha Preston, the bestselling author of 'The Cellar,' 'The Cabin,' and other titles for teens, whips up another YA suspense novel, 'The Party.'
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Tony Weaver Jr.
The author of middle grade graphic novel memoir ‘Weirdo,’ illustrated by twin creators Jes and Cin Wibowo, had no intention of breaking into the traditional publishing biz. “I knew I wanted to create things,” Tony Weaver Jr. says of his youthful aspirations. “And I originally started with poetry.”
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Rachel Michelle Wilson
Rachel Michelle Wilson wants to hear your pee pants story. It’s just one of the ways she’s creating community around her debut book, ‘How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way,’ a how-to-style book in which a bespectacled owl deals with a telltale wet spot and social mortification.
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Jill Tew
How far is too far?” It’s a question many are asking themselves as technology continues its rapid expansion, and it’s the question at the core of Jill Tew’s YA science fiction debut, ‘The Dividing Sky.’
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Cai Tse
Author Cai Tse has found a way to combine her two biggest loves—Chinese lion dancing and art—into a career, which now includes competing globally on a lion dancing team and publishing her debut graphic novel, ‘Lion Dancers.’
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Jeff Drew
With the publication of his debut picture book, ‘Alfie Explores A to Z: A Seek-and-Find Adventure,’ author-illustrator Jeff Drew found a way to partner career success with personal passion.
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Tigest Girma
Tigest Girma is good at keeping secrets. After all, it’s how the debut author of ‘Immortal Dark’ started her writing career, quietly typing dystopian stories influenced by Suzanne Collins’s ‘The Hunger Games’ and Veronica Roth’s ‘Divergent’ on Wattpad during her teenage years.
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Fall 2024 Flying Starts
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising debuts.
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Q & A with Shannon Messenger
Shannon Messenger takes a detour in 'Unraveled', book 9.5 in her bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities middle grade series. The first book to be narrated from an entirely new POV and the second .5 installment following 'Unlocked' (book 8.5), 'Unraveled' centers on elven teenager Keefe Sencen after he split off from Sophie Foster in 'Stellarlune'.
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Q & A with Deborah Farmer Kris
Deborah Farmer Kris spoke with us about how she grew into her roles as a parent educator and writer, and where she goes when she’s in need of parenting advice of her own.
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Q & A with Marisha Pessl
Adult author Marisha Pessl follows her YA debut 'Neverworld Wake' with suspense thriller 'Darkly.'
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2024 Native American Heritage Month: Q & As with Creators for Young Readers
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we spoke with the creators of several children’s books out this year highlighting different aspects of Indigenous culture and life in their works.
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In Conversation: Leslé Honoré and Cozbi A. Cabrera
We asked author Leslé Honoré and illustrator Cozbi A. Cabrera to discuss their new picture book, 'Brown Girl, Brown Girl,' based on Honoré's viral poem inspired by the historic election of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Q & A with Katharine McGee
Katharine McGee, the bestselling author of the American Royals series, turns back the clock to 19th-century Europe in her new YA historical romance novel 'A Queen’s Game,' the first book in a planned duology inspired by true events.
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Q & A with Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve returns to the world of Mortal Engines in YA steampunk novel 'Thunder City,' an all-new adventure set between the Fever Crumb prequel series and the original saga.
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Q & A with Jeff Drew
Long-time commercial illustrator Jeff Drew’s debut picture book, 'Alfie Explores A to Z,' is a seek-and-find marvel, containing hundreds of humorous photo-realistic depictions of animals, food, clothing, and more to discover.
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Q & A with William Joyce
William Joyce figures that 'Rocket Puppies' is his 53rd book—although don't hold him to that. What’s clear is that this picture book about a team of interstellar, incredibly cute puppies who save the Earth from despair has a particularly profound backstory.
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Q & A with Beth Reekles
Reekles spoke with us about her new rom-com, 'Love & Lattes'; how her experience on Wattpad shaped her writing; and what brings her back to the YA genre.
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Q & A with Bruce Hale
Prolific children's book creator Bruce Hale's new series of illustrated chapter books—the Outer Space Mystery Pizza Club, illustrated by Luke Séguin-Magee—begins with intergalactic space adventure 'Elvis Is Missing.'
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