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.
04/19/2012 @ 03:00PM
Barry Lyga’s latest novel, I Hunt Killers, tells the story of Jazz, the son of the world's greatest serial killer. Going beyond the usual tropes of the thriller genre, Lyga explores the effect of murder on the family of the killer and on the community as a whole.
04/12/2012 @ 03:00PM
Alyson Noël has hit her stride in both the YA and middle grade arenas. In the former, the six-book The Immortals series from St. Martin’s Griffin has more than eight million copies in print worldwide. The author’s first foray into middle grade fiction, the Riley Bloom paperback series, has more than 800,000 copies in print, and Square Fish will release the fourth installment, Whisper, on April 24. Noël further expands her reach into the YA market on May 22, when St. Martin’s Griffin publishes Fated, the debut novel in her new series, The Soul Seekers.
04/05/2012 @ 03:00PM
National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick's new book, Never Fall Down, is a haunting but hopeful YA novel about a boy who survives the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge by joining a band in prison camp. It is based on the true story of Arn Chorn Pond — who survived the Cambodian Revolution in the late 1970s and now works as an activist, musician, and speaker.
The Roundup for Authors
Publishing news from across the Web
An interview with Riordan on the occasion of the publication of The Serpent's Shadow.
What he's reading now, and what book had the greatest impact on him.
Author-illustrator Niamh Sharkey has been named Ireland's second Laureate na nÓg.
"He gave children not books, but literature, like Lewis Carroll and Twain. Not pictures, but art, like John Tenniel and N. C. Wyeth."
| 1 | Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan / Author |
| 2 | Insurgent Veronica Roth / Author |
| 3 | Bitterblue Kristin Cashore / Author, Ian Schoenherr / Illustrator |
| 4 | Invaders John Flanagan / Author |
| 5 | Divergent Veronica Roth / Author |
| 6 | The Lost Hero Rick Riordan / Author |
| 1 | Duckling Gets a Cookie!? Mo Willems / Author, Mo Willems / Illustrator |
| 2 | Max's Easter Surprise Rosemary Wells / Author |
| 3 | Where Are Baby's Easter Eggs? Karen Katz / Author, Karen Katz / Illustrator |
| 4 | Fancy Nancy's Elegant Easter Jane O'Connor / Author, Robin Preiss Glasser / Illustrator |
| 5 | There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick Lucille Colandro / Author, Jared Lee / Illustrator |
| 6 | Splat the Cat: Where's the Easter Bunny? Rob Scotton / Author |
| 1 | Hunger Games Suzanne Collins / Author |
| 2 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney / Author |
| 3 | The Lorax Dr Seuss / Author |
| 4 | Big Nate Lincoln Peirce / Author |
| 5 | The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart / Author |
| 6 | The Kingdom Keepers Ridley Pearson / Author |
