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Dino-School: An Interview with Author Lisa Wheeler

The bell rings, the doors fly open, and in come the dinos! Diplo, Compy, the Twins and more return to the page in Dino-School by Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott. Whether they’re decorating the classroom, celebrating the 100th day of school, or racing across the schoolyard during Field Day, the dinos of Room 3 are […]Read more

Author Interviews

Indigo and Ida: An Interview with Author Heather Murphy Capps

In the brand new middle grade Indigo and Ida, Indigo is an eighth-grade investigative reporter, and she’s taking the world by storm. She breaks an important story, exposing an unfair school policy, she’s suddenly popular for the first time. But when she notices that the school’s disciplinary policies seem to be enforced especially harshly with […]Read more

Unparalleled: Floyd Cooper, A Literary Remembrance

By Carole Boston Weatherford “There is no greater gift than the truth.” Floyd Cooper I credit my two children with introducing me to Floyd Cooper—not the man but the artist. Their grandmother gave them the poetry book Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas. Floyd’s subjects’ faces glowed with warmth and love. I next encountered […]Read more

Real-Life Recipes from A HOUSE DIVIDED Series

With each volume of A House Divided, a captivating and creative fantasy graphic novel series, Haiko Hörnig and Marius Pawlitza have invited readers to make some creations of their own. The books follow Henrietta Achilles, a big-hearted orphan who inherits the sizable and magical estate of her uncle, a notorious wizard. While Henrietta finds all […]Read more

Author Interviews

Interview with Cardslinger Author M.G. Velasco and Agent Dawn Frederick

by Amy Fitzgerald, Associate Editorial Director, Carolrhoda Novels Amy: Dawn, tell me about the “gong show for authors” that led to you discovering M. G.Read more

Video: Be a Maker Author Katey Howes

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Who can be a maker? We all can! Author Katey Howes shares more about her wonderful new picture book Be a Maker in this video clip.Read more

Behind the Scenes of Making a Picture Book: The Vast Wonder of the World

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books To celebrate the upcoming release of The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just, I wanted to (virtually) bring together a few of the people involved to share a behind-the-scenes peek at how the book came together. Read more

Author Spotlight: Allyssa Loya

by Jenny Krueger, Publishing Director for School and Library I met Disney Coding Adventures author Allyssa Loya at the 2017 TLA (Texas Library Association) conference when she presented to a packed house about how she got a coding club up and running in her library. As she presented, I heard a familiar refrain from the […]Read more

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