It’s always difficult to narrow down the teetering pile of “Books I Loved” and the tottering pile of “Books to be Read” to a manageable number. Here are just a few middle grade novels author Sarah Dooley loved, and a few more she’s looking forward to reading.
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During her teens, Deirdre Riordan Hall, author of PEARL, traveled throughout the United States and Europe, developing a love for stories and a desire to connect with worlds imagined or real on the page.
A new book, Climate Change: Discover How It Impacts Spaceship Earth aims to bring the climate change discussion to the family kitchen table and science classroom.
To celebrate First Second Books and the rise of graphic novels, we thought it would be fun to have graphic novelist veteran, Leland Myrick, who has been with First Second from the beginning, and Andy Hirsch, a 2016 debut graphic novelist, interview each other.
Il Sung Na, illustrator of The Opposite Zoo, talks about the art of zoo animals in picture books. “The zoo is a great and fun place for children indeed.”
“…the best worlds were the ones that felt alive, that felt like they existed whether I was reading about them or not.”
Mariam Gates, author of Good Morning Yoga, selected these five family favorites.
Picture book extraordinaire Tara Lazar and the frightfully creative S. Britt interview each other about Normal Norman (Sterling Children’s Books, 2016), a laugh-out-loud book that explores the meaning of normal through the study of an exceptionally strange orangutan.
Laurenne Sala began her career as an advertising copywriter, writing national campaigns for clients like KIA Motors, Jack-in-the-Box, and Beats by Dre.
Dig In!, by Cindy Jenson-Elliott is all about digging in and getting to know our own little part of the planet.