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"You have the most to learn from the perspectives that are hardest to find in the world." For today's cover reveal, American Hmong author Kao Kalia Yang discusses the story behind her remarkable and beautiful upcoming picture book The Most Beautiful Thing, and how intersectionality informs her writing.
Representation and children's books. I talk fables and fairytales with Natalie Portman.
Each year, the winners of the Sydney Taylor are "sent", as it were, on blog tours. And today, I am pleased beyond measure to be speaking with Andrew Maraniss, winner of the Sydney Taylor Honor for Middle Grade, for his book Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany.
Today, I am very pleased to be interviewing not simply one creator but a whole group at once. The Sowing Circle is a sisterhood of Southern Black writers. And, in their own words, the group mission is to "sow affirming words and images in the hearts of children in order to reap a generation that is inquisitive, empathetic and enlightened".
Today we're revealing Kristin L. Gray's upcoming middle grade novel THE AMELIA SIX. But before we get to all that, let's talk a bit to Kristin herself about the book, speedcubing, Amelia Earhart's work with Syrian immigrants, and the difficulty level of writing middle grade mysteries (of which we never have enough).
An upcoming series described as "Toy Story" meets "Lord of the Flies"? All right. Color me intrigued. I talk with Daniel Kraus about his intriguing new series.
You want something high class and snazzy? You know who to turn to. Today I sit down (virtually) with Marilyn Singer and I pull no punches, people! Good thing I really like today's book.
For 25 years, Mexicans and Americans have celebrated "La Posada Sin Fronteras" (Inn without Borders) in Friendship Park. This is a Christmas tradition, which means that Mitali Perkin's newest book, BETWEEN US AND ABUELA, is a different kind of Christmas story. I find out why she chose to write it.
I can't just do a cover reveal of a title without getting the lowdown on the book in question. So I shot some questions in Anne Nesbet's general direction and she was happy enough to oblige me with answers.
Not all syndicated cartoonist middle grade novels are created equal, and that's why I was rather surprised and touched when one Mr. Paul Gilligan agreed to be interviewed. Mr. Gilligan is the creator/ illustrator of the Pooch Cafe comic strip that's been featured in outlets like the Washington Post. And as it just so happens, King of the Mole People is Paul's debut middle grade novel.