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Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz’s imagination has created books ranging from the Newbery-winning verse novel Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! to the multi-award-winning historical YA novel The Hired Girl. Her latest, The Winter of the Dollhouse (Candlewick, 9–12 years), is a doll story — with human and doll points of view. Can’t get...
From the Editor - November 2025
From outer space to worlds almost like our own to realities in historical fiction, this issue of Notes offers a variety of settings and journeys. With Five Questions for Laura Amy Schlitz about her thought-provoking and enjoyable sentient-dolls-meet-plucky-and-complex-protagonist novel The Winter of the Dollhouse, there are many great recommendations with which to curl...
Review of The Winter of the Dollhouse
The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy SchlitzIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 400 pp.9/25 9781536236088 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536247589 $18.99Tiph is a child who is pulled in many directions. She loves her younger half siblings but is fed up with the chaos of a house with babies. She appreciates that her...
Review of Amber & Clay
Amber & Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz; illus. by Julia Iredale Middle School, High School Candlewick 544 pp. g 3/21 978-1-5362-0122-2 $22.99 Curation, historical fiction, performance piece — Schlitz (Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, rev. 11/07) brings a bundle of learning, artifice, and intentionality to this highly stylized tale of ancient...
The Hired Girl: Author Laura Amy Schlitz’s 2016 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech
Joan would be happy that I’m here. She’d be thrilled to find herself in the Athens of America: the city of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Candlewick Press.I’m thrilled too, so gleeful that I’m going to share a secret, a truth not universally acknowledged in the writing world: Sometimes...
AJL 2016
A few days before Roger and Martha set off for ALA, I flew to Charleston for the annual conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL). As a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee (named for the author of the All-of-a-Kind Family series; which sibling are you?), I...
Fall 2015 Publishers’ Preview: Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2015 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Fall Publishers’ Preview, a semiannual advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.Sponsored byNewbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz...
For Eva
Her father’s well-remembered voice came to save her. “When you’re sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It’s always better underneath the open sky.” — Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs I am writing about Eva in my back garden. A bowlegged wasp is exploring the pages of my notebook, and...
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