Interviews and Conversations

When Joyce Duriga set out to write a biography on St. Joseph Sr. Helen Prejean and her death row ministry, she wanted to ensure it was accessible for the "average...

Laced with themes of community, identity and love, author-illustrator Katie Yamasaki’s picture books offer sensitive, nuanced stories in an accessible format—a description that also fits her work as an internationally...

A chance meeting with a well-known illustrator that turned into a mini-workshop on picture-book writing, an unexpected result in a Pennsylvania congressional race, and a Fleetwood Mac hit from 1975...

Author Lynda Mullaly Hunt is known for her authentic characters in books such as Fish in a Tree, which won the Schneider Family Book Award, and One for the Murphys....

Middle-grade readers likely have crossed paths with Tui T. Sutherland’s books, whether under her own name or one of her aliases. As an editor at HarperCollins, Sutherland helped the group...

This fall Thanhha (pronounced TANG-ha) Lai publishes her debut novel for young adults, Butterfly Yellow. Her powerful book centers on two 18-year-old protagonists, a Vietnamese refugee named Hằng in search...

Having published two well-received picture books, Daniel Bernstrom turns his attention to his family’s own history in his new book, Big Papa and the Time Machine, a tale about a...

Sara Pennypacker has published nearly 20 books, but her forthcoming middle grade novel is the first in which she’s created a character fully inspired by her own personality and introversion....

In her 20-plus years of writing books for children, Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park has delved into a broad range of formats and genres, from picture books to historical fiction...