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Fall 2020 Children’s Flying Starts
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising children's and YA debuts.
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Fall 2020 Flying Starts: Van Hoang
For as long as she can remember, Van Hoang has been a writer, so the release of her first middle grade novel, ‘Girl Giant and the Monkey King’—inspired by her Vietnamese heritage—is the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition.
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Fall 2020 Flying Starts: Jashar Awan
Author-illustrator Jashar Awan’s debut picture book, ‘What a Lucky Day!,’ which follows a group of animals as they confront their stereotypes and misconceptions of each other, has a timely message.
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Fall 2020 Flying Starts: Darcie Little Badger
We spoke with Darcie Little Badger about her #OwnVoices YA debut, ‘Elatsoe,’ a supernatural mystery starring an asexual Lipan Apache teenager.
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Fall 2020 Flying Starts: Aiden Thomas
After years of being unable to find books representing his experience as a queer Latinx trans individual, nonbinary author Aiden Thomas has written one himself: ‘Cemetery Boys,’ one of the year’s standout YA novels.
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Fall 2020 Flying Starts: Chloe Gong
As a college senior, Chloe Gong, author of ‘These Violent Delights’—a fantastical take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set in 1920s Shanghai—is one of PW’s youngest ever Flying Starts.
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Fall 2020 Flying Starts: Tracy Deonn
Tracy Deonn discusses her debut YA fantasy, ‘Legendborn,’ a mash-up of Arthurian legend and Black girl magic set in the contemporary South.
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Angie Thomas to Embark on Star-Studded Tour, Virtually
Angie Thomas is heading on a virtual tour in honor of her new YA novel, ‘Concrete Rose,’ the highly anticipated prequel to ‘The Hate U Give.’
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Four Questions for Melissa Albert
Melissa Albert pulls readers deeper into the world established in her YA novels 'The Hazel Wood' and 'The Night Country' with 'Tales from the Hinterland,' a new collection of 12 original fairy tales.
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Q & A with Gary Paulsen
We spoke with prolific children's author Gary Paulsen, who shared what led him to write a memoir, how books have shaped his life, and what he's currently writing.
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Children's Author Presentations Go Digital
We’ve gathered some unique examples of how authors are tailoring their outreach to meet the needs of students and teachers during the pandemic.
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Jason Reynolds Plays Santa Claus for D.C. Readers and Indies
In honor of Giving Tuesday, Jason Reynolds, the 2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, bought nearly the entire inventory of his 14 books at most of the indie bookstores in Washington, D.C.
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Authors' Quarantine Stories: Leslie Margolis
Continuing our series of authors' noteworthy stories from the pandemic, Leslie Margolis reflects on the "intense and complicated" and also humorous reality of working on a book for middle graders while quarantining with her own tween children.
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Q & A with Kimberly Willis Holt
We spoke with Kimberly Willis Holt about following up her 1999 National Book Award-winning novel, 'When Zachary Beaver Came to Town,' with a new companion novel, 'The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas.'
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Sabaa Tahir on Wrapping Up Her 'Ember in the Ashes' Series
"The story evolved in unexpected ways," Sabaa Tahir acknowledges of her YA fantasy series An Ember in the Ashes, which concludes today with the release of 'A Sky Beyond the Storm.'
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Lisi Harrison Has Two New Series on Deck
Lisi Harrison, whose bestselling series The Clique introduced a group of popular girls at a posh private school, will debut two series in 2021—each set at very different middle schools.
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Four Questions for Cheryl B. Klein
We spoke with Lee & Low editorial director and author Cherly Klein about her new picture book, 'A Year of Everyday Wonders,' about a young girl marking a series of firsts.
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Q & A with Torrey Maldonado
PW spoke with Maldonado about how how his early educational struggles influenced him to become a teacher, and how his life, his teaching, and his students inspire his writing.
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Jeff Kinney's Drive-Thru Tour in Photos
In celebration of book 15 in Jeff Kinney's mega-bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, the author took an innovative approach that followed pandemic protocol.
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Q & A with Holly Black
One year after releasing 'The Queen of Nothing,' the final book in the Folk of the Air trilogy, Holly Black returns to the world of Elfame with an illustrated collection of short stories.
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