 Considering he's been published for three decades, it's hard to believe children's novelist Richard Peck started writing late in life. But a twenty-year teaching career advanced a literary calling that, like the winged-heeled Hermes, almost immediately took flight, once it began... |
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 When "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs," became a bona fide picture book bestseller in 1989, editors at Viking cautioned teacher-turned-author Jon Scieszka and freelance illustrator Lane Smith. "This is great," they said, "but don't expect it to happen again." Boy, were they wrong. |
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 Bebe Moore Campbell's groundbreaking fiction offers children in the shadow of bipolar parents a glimmer of hope. |
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 Happiness has been more than an accident of fate for author/illustrator Steven Kellogg. It has been a calculated effort --- an effort born of a remarkable childhood observation and a lifelong respect for what it means to be a kid... |
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 It's hard to imagine a time when Eric Carle was not one of the leading author/illustrators of children's literature. But even before he illustrated "Brown Bear, Brown Bear," by Bill Martin, Jr. in 1967, he lived a remarkable life...
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 Long before Avi became an award-winning author --- before he created the fantasy realms of Poppy the deer mouse or young Charlotte Doyle --- he discovered within himself the one personal characteristic essential to success in the world of children's literature: respect for young readers... |
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 "Stuck in Neutral," Terry Trueman's June 2000 debut novel from HarperCollins, rocketed him from anonymity to Printz Honor in the space of a single year. The powerful story of 14-year-old Shawn McDaniel -- a bright and funny young man secretly trapped within a body severely disabled at birth by Cerebral Palsy - captured imaginations (and flared tempers) by the scores. |
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 A lively interview with one of the legends of children's literature on his new anthology of short stories for boys. |
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