Author and Illustrator Spotlight – Page 29

Revisiting Kenya in the 1980s [Guest Post by Eucabeth Odhiambo]

By Eucabeth Odhiambo, author of middle-grade novel Auma’s Long Run Writing Auma’s Long Run, my debut middle-grade novel set in Kenya in the 1980s, took me back to what things were like in Kenya when I was growing up and how so much has changed.Read more

A Note from National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold

National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold shares a note to What Girls Are Made Of readers and an excerpt from the book.Read more

Q&A with Paper Butterflies Author Lisa Heathfield

UK author Lisa Heathfield stops by the blog to talk about Carnegie Medal-nominee Paper Butterflies, which was released in the US on October 1.Read more

A National Dictionary Day Q&A with Noah Webster

Happy National Dictionary Day! We asked Noah Webster, star and editor of Noah Webster’s Fighting Words, to answer a few questions in honor of the occasion. (Author Tracy Nelson Maurer might have helped him out a bit.)Read more

Meet Mallory Chapter Book Series Author Laurie Friedman

Laurie Friedman’s Mallory chapter book series is wrapping up this fall with #28 Mallory Makes a Difference. Mallory’s had a lot of adventures over the years, from going to camp for the first time to taking trip to New York. We asked Laurie a few questions about writing, thinking of ideas for Mallory stories, and […]Read more

National Book Award Finalist: What Girls Are Made Of

CBS This Morning announced the National Book Award finalists on October 4, and Elana K. Arnold’s YA novel What Girls Are Made Of is one of the five finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature!Read more

Celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week with SEA OTTER HEROES Author Patricia Newman!

Sea Otter Heroes author Patricia Newman has been celebrating Sea Otter Awareness Week all month! Below are excerpts of some of her posts. Interview with Dr. Brent Hughes Dr. Brent Hughes is a marine biologist with the University of California at Santa Cruz-Long Marine Lab. Dr. Hughes discovered a new trophic cascade involving sea otters, […]Read more

Two Authors of Feminist Books for Teens on Tour [Guest Post by Amber J. Keyser]

YA author Amber J. Keyser writes about feminist books for teens and her “Feminism and the Female Body” book tour with Elana K. Arnold, author of National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist title What Girls Are Made Of. A shorter version of this post appeared in this week’s Book Riot’s “What’s Up in YA” September 18 […]Read more

What Girls Are Made Of Longlisted for the National Book Award

The New Yorker posted the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist on September 12, and Elana K. Arnold’s YA novel What Girls Are Made Of is one of the ten titles on the list!Read more

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