Authors & Illustrators
In The Nonsense Show, iconic picture-book creator Eric Carle reveals depths of previously unknown daffiness. A human baby sits in a kangaroo’s pouch, a lion is a people-tamer, a mouse catches a cat. Adults will appreciate the matter-of-fact surrealism; kids will simply find the whole thing a riotous hoot.1. There's...
Photo: John Swannell.Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic series for adults, is known as "The Queen of Romantic Comedy." Her new book, Finding Audrey, is her first foray into YA territory...and it's a good one. Kinsella graciously submitted to The Horn Book's Five Questions treatment during Crossover Week.1. Your portrayal...
Deborah Taylor is third from the left in this 2014 photo of the "Cincy Gang." Photo by Alison Dougherty Berkowitz.This series of interviews debuted last spring with five questions for author T.A. Barron; now I'm following it up with five more for one of my favorite librarians, Deborah Taylor, coordinator of...
Photo: Edward PaganSonia Manzano's forty-four-year run as Sesame Street's Maria recently came to a close, but that doesn't mean she's taking it easy. Her newest book, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx (Scholastic, 14 years and up), is a memoir in which Manzano recounts her rough childhood...
Antoinette Portis won a Geisel Honor in 2007 for her picture book Not a Box (Harper, 3–6 years), a celebration of child's imaginative vision over the skepticism that tends to creep in later in life. Her latest picture book Wait (Roaring Brook/Porter, 3–6 years) likewise encourages children — and their...
Photo: Sam BoutelleAnn Bausum has written nonfiction about U.S. presidents and first ladies, muckrakers, Freedom Riders, suffragists, immigrants, and world wars. Her latest book Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights (Viking, 11–15 years) focuses on the 1969 Stonewall riots, which helped kick things off (spectacularly; there was...
Photo: John KwiatkowskiWith Last Stop on Market Street (Putnam, 5–8 years), author Matt de la Peña and illustrator Christian Robinson take readers on a bus journey through the city — along the way exploring a young boy's warm relationship with his nana, her sunny outlook on life, and their interactions...
Author T. A. Barron instituted the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes in 2000. Named for the author's mother, the Prize is given annually to fifteen young people "who have made a significant positive difference to people and/or our environment." Each winner receives $5,000 toward his or her work or...
April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than by talking with acclaimed poet Nikki Grimes? Her many books include narratives in verse, prose fiction, poetry collections, and nonfiction, frequently featuring African American characters and culture. In Grimes's latest picture book, Poems in the Attic (illustrated by...
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