Publications about books for children and young adults
Cool-dude A we know very well. As for People B: embarrassingly, we’ve lost track of who they are! Please help us out. Anyone? Anyone? This post is part of our “Guess who”? author and illustrator photo series. Click on the tag Guess who? to see all entries!
Marilyn Singer had already demonstrated considerable versatility of poetic talents when in 2010 she debuted a new verse form in Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse (6–10 years, Dutton). This year she is back with a companion, Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems (6–10 years, Dial; both books illustrated by Josée Masse), in [...]
Fabulous Facial Hair! This post is part of our “Guess who”? author and illustrator photo series. Click on the tag Guess who? to see all entries!
Who are these handsome author and illustrator gents? What about this father-son pair? This post is part of our “Guess who”? author and illustrator photo series. Click on the tag Guess who? to see all entries!
Can you guess these lovely author and illustrator ladies? Here’s a hint: “Lady C” was a Horn Book Magazine cover model in 2010. This post is part of our “Guess who”? author and illustrator photo series. Click on the tag Guess who? to see all entries!
Today’s “guess who?” author and illustrator pictures also feature their furry friends. Can you guess the human subjects of these photos? This gentleman’s canine companion doesn’t appear in the photo below, but you can see him (in all his glory) with his dog here. This post is part of our “Guess who”? author and illustrator [...]
A tweet from little sis SLJ drew our attention to this site, in which several photos of famous authors appear in their teenage years. (Overheard: “Awww, tiny Neil Gaiman!” …Okay, I was the one who said that.) Lolly has a huge collage of old author and illustrator publicity photos in her office, so we thought [...]
What would Margaret Wise Brown have been without Clement Hurd? There’d have been no Goodnight Moon. What would Ruth Krauss have been without Maurice Sendak or Crockett Johnson or Marc Simont? There’d have been no Hole Is to Dig or Carrot Seed or Happy Day. Some of the most original, imaginative picture book scripts have [...]
Since 1988 and the publication of Changes in Latitudes, Will Hobbs has been one of the preeminent adventure novelists writing for young people. Typically, his stories feature a young protagonist confronting some challenge or other posed by the natural world; in his new book Never Say Die, a boy and his adult half-brother face all [...]
