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ACCOMPLISHED SINGER JOE COLEMAN IS A MAN OF many talents. In addition to his vocal abilities, he's also a songwriter, playwright, and now a children's book author. Coleman's new book, [...]

Award-winning author and producer Cindy Callaghan has written 11 middle grade novels, including her debut work, Just Add Magic and its sequel, Just Add Magic 2: Potion Problems, which were developed into a popular television series. Her latest offering, My Big, Heart-Shaped Fail, is due out in September. Callaghan enjoyed creative writing in high school and snuck pockets of time to write here and there over the years since, but her busy family and demanding job were always her priority. 'When my third child was born 19 years ago, I needed a creative outlet and I took a writing class,' says Callaghan. 'And it was like a whole piece of me that had taken a long nap while I took care of the rest of my life woke up and wanted to come out and play.', AS A CHILD, CALLAGHAN STRUGGLED WITH READING in school. 'At an early age I wasn't good at it, and I was put into the Turtle reading group,' she says. 'Not [...]

Loosely based on Ian Falconer's twin nephews, Dachshund brothers Perry and Augie are home alone and desperately want to get outside and have a good time. Augie is the cautious one, the worrier; Perry is pure joy and excitement. When they finally manage to open the back door, mischievous adventures begin! Soon they're diving into the swimming pool, digging an enormous hole, and more! Will all return to normal before their owners come home? Falconer's first all-new characters since Olivia are sure to equally capture the hearts of readers everywhere. We couldn't wait to talk to Ian to find out more!, Why did you want to become a writer? I never set out to be a writer. I was mostly doing painting and theater work. But I had this character based [...]

Sheri Sturniolo has been a pediatric registered nurse for over 20 years. She started her career as a traveling nurse and her many adventures were the inspiration for the Tales of a Traveling Nurse series. Sheri began her author journey with her first series, You Were Meant for Me, written for her own children. She enjoys writing children's books that help little ones better understand the world around them while opening up important conversations between the reader and child. We wanted to learn more!, Why did you want to become a nurse? As a teenager I worked at a daycare caring for babies in the infant room and then later began working at a [...]

WHEN AUTHOR SUE GANZ-SCHMITT ISN'T RUNNING a marathon, performing on Broadway, earning a yoga certification, or studying for her upcoming real estate license exam, she's writing children's books. Her latest [...]

IN LINDSEY LEAVITT'S NEW BOOK, WILLIS WILBUR WOWS the World, readers meet Willis: a 9-year-old boy facing a long, lonely summer vacation because his best friend is going away on [...]

IN HER NEW PICTURE BOOK, A GRANDMA'S MAGIC, AUTHOR CHARLOTTE OFFSAY celebrates the precious bond between grandmother and grandchild. A Grandma's Magic touches on some of the favorite activities grandmothers [...]

ALMOST EVERY PARENT HAS STRUGGLED to get their children to try new, healthy foods. Some parents resort to bribery, others pretend that a loaded fork is an airplane, and some [...]

Michael Girgenti is a children's book author and the proud founder of Strawberry Pencil Magic, a unique brand of children's books that promote positivity, cultivate creativity, and offer original characters [...]

For his debut graphic novel, Louie and Bear in the Land of Anything Goes, actor, artist, and children's book author Brady Smith created a strange new planet where there are [...]

Sixteen-year-old Danielle Lee is passionate about the environment. A scientist at heart, she's always learning more about the earth, and specifically about the man-made issues that are harming natural habitats [...]

Marty Kelley's new children's book demonstrates how a talented author/illustrator can find inspiration just about anywhere. 'The story idea actually came from a lone red towel in our linen closet,' [...]

Tracey Baptiste's Latest book began as 'Africans Before Slavery,' a blog post she wrote in 2017 in response to comments former President Donald Trump made at a Black History Month [...]

A terrific teacher can have positive, life-changing effects on the lives of his or her students, just like the teacher in Rob Buyea's popular Mr. Terupt series does. The series [...]

David LaRochelle has been writing for over 30 years, producing over 30 children's books. His 2020 release See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog, illustrated by his friend and [...]

Dylan Dreyer combines her passion for the weather with social-emotional learning in the first book of her new children's book series, Misty the Cloud: A Very Stormy Day. The series [...]

Padma Venkatraman's remarkable life has taken her all over the world. Born into a wealthy Indian family, Venkatraman has also known the sting of poverty. Prior to becoming an author, she worked as a scientist, spending time at sea studying the ocean's depths, and as an educator, running and teaching at a British school. She lived in five countries before moving to the U.S. and becoming an American citizen. Today, Venkatraman focuses on writing young adult novels. Her latest, Born Behind Bars, is the product of the varied, international experiences that have shaped her. 'It's deepened my passion for social justice, for raising awareness, for underrepresented and marginalized voices,' she says. Human nature, she's found, is essentially the same no matter where those humans happen to be located on the globe. 'I also love and see the value in respecting and accepting and understanding our differences as much as our similarities. We need to value both.', Venkatraman's childhood was idyllic for the first few years. 'My early memories include riding horses and climbing magnificent trees in the gardens of a mansion, but when I was about [...]

Lydia M. Sigwarth's debut picture book, Dear Librarian, is a tribute to Debra Stephenson, a librarian who had an indelible effect on Sigwarth during the six-month period of her childhood [...]

Growing up can be tough for kids. There's so much more to learn about life than just the academic subjects they learn in school. Fortunately, author Kirsten Miller has written [...]

In 2014, then 48-year-old Mara James was a mother and manager of her husband's busy OB/GYN practice when she experienced a manic episode for the first time in her life. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, James underwent a long, healing journey. Now, inspired by her own struggles, she's the founder and CEO of the Extraordinary Lives Foundation (ELF) which works to promote mental health awareness for children and their parents. James also developed a mascot for ELF: a stuffed animal named Piggie Bear, who teaches kids about wellness. Piggie Bear is featured in James' debut book, The Power of Piggie Bear, available just in time for National Mental Health Awareness month. 'At ELF, our goal is for Piggie Bear to be the Smokey Bear of mental health and wellness,' says James. 'It's time that we ended the stigma associated with mental health.', James experienced troubling symptoms during her episode. 'I would wake up in the middle of the night and just start writing,' she says. 'I'm usually an Excel spreadsheet person, so [...]

In his new kids' book, Mutts Go Green: Earth-Friendly Tips and Comic Strips, acclaimed cartoonist Patrick McDonnell combines his two favorite things: animals and comics. It's a collection of environmentally-themed [...]

BEST KNOWN FOR HER ROLE AS DR. JULIE GREANE ON HBO's Ballers, actress Jazmyn Simon has recently released her first picture book, Most Perfect You. The book, inspired by a [...]

REBECCA EVANS' NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK, ALONE LIKE ME, was heavily inspired by events from her own life. The book, set in China, is about a lonely little girl who longs [...]

A recent check of The New York Times' list of best-selling children's picture books revealed two written by lawyer, entrepreneur, and author Meena Harris; her 2020 book Kamala and Maya's [...]

In scott Kelly's new bedtime picture book, Goodnight, Astronaut, the record-setting astronaut who spent almost a full year in space shares some of the strangest places he's ever fallen asleep. [...]

You've heard the legendary Bette Midler singing about wings, but now she's writing about them. Her latest project, The Tale of the Mandarin Duck: A Modern Fable is a children's [...]

Emma Grange, a self-described 'peculiar person,' recently won the Royal Dragonfly Awards Grand Prize for her book, Needing Normal. The story follows a high school freshman named Jett Harper who [...]

With over 25 years of experience working in education in various capacities teaching both students and teachers alike how to write, T. P. Jagger is debuting his first book, Hide [...]

Jason Tharp knows how it feels to not fit in. Over the years, his struggle with feeling different manifested itself in harmful ways, including crippling personal debt, deep depression, and overeating to the point where he weighed nearly 400 pounds. In Tharp's brand new children's book, It's Okay to Be a Unicorn, he encourages kids to let their true selves shine through in everything they do. 'There's no shame in not being the same,' says Tharp. 'I want kids to know that their life is their story. I want them to tell it the way they want to, not how someone else says they should tell it.', Tharp says It's Okay to Be a Unicorn is the book he wishes his fourth-grade self could have read. 'Back then, I was the chubby kid without a lot of [...]

Q: Where did you grow up? A: I grew up in Treaty 4 Territory in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Q: Did you read a lot as a child? A: All the [...]

If your house was on fire and you could only grab one thing as you ran to safety, what would it be? That's the question behind Newbery Medalist author and educator Linda Sue Park's new book, The One Thing You'd Save. The story, written not in prose but in Korean sijo poetry, is set in a middle school classroom where students weigh in on the treasured item they would rescue from the flames. 'It's a question people sometimes talk about,' says Park. 'Almost like a parlor game. But you can tell a lot about a person by their things. When I'm writing and trying to create characters that feel real, I think about what they look like and what their personality is, of course. But a huge part of building a character for me is determining what they care about and what they love.', Born in Illinois to Korean immigrant parents, Park studied English at Stanford University. She went on to receive a Higher Diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College, Dublin and Birkbeck [...]

When author/illustrator Steve Light was a kid, he was fascinated watching sguirrels scampering around, high in the trees near his home. 'It was like they had a whole highway system [...]

The fact that author Maribeth Boelts enjoys being around children so much is probably one of the reasons that her books are so well received by them. Her latest book, [...]