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Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, the talented tale-telling team behind the New York Times bestselling Hank Zipzer series, have a brand-new series featuring a very different kind of main character. [...]

Troy Cummings has written and/or illustrated over 30 children's books, including the 13 monster-packed installments of his popular The Notebook of Doom series. Cumming's new series, The Binder of Doom [...]

The Tiny Chef Show defies description. It's a miniature mix-up of live action and stop motion, with an extremely cute character and compelling concept (think Julia Child meets Kermit the [...]

'I collect weird facts,' says Lowery. 'For some reason, out of all the facts I've collected over the years, the weirdest and most fun facts tend to be about dinosaurs. [...]

Ironically, history was Karyn Parsons' least favorite subject in school. The founder of The Blackberry Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting the stories of unsung heroes from African American history, [...]

'I am so happy to write a book that my kids can enjoy,' says Milano. 'I also feel like this is the right time for something like this because of [...]

'Guts might be my most personal book to date,' says Telgemeier. 'It's about the anxiety I dealt with in my elementary school years, and how it manifested as panic attacks, [...]

It's no surprise Craft gravitated towards the graphic novel format for his first kids' book. 'I have been a comic fan my entire life,' he says. 'I feel like I [...]

There's so much more to C.R. Stewart's book, Britfield and the Lost Crown, than meets the eye. Stewart wrote the story over the course of four years, logging in roughly [...]

Acclaimed chef and television personality Andrew Zimmern has combined three of his favorite topics in the first book of his new children's series: travel, storytelling, and uncommon foods. Released in [...]

Gina Perry's lovable monster duo, Moe and Peanut, are back in her latest picture book, Now? Not Yet! (Tundra Books). This time, this preschool version of the Odd Couple are [...]

Over the past two decades, Laurie Berkner has made a name for herself by performing children's music that parents can actually tolerate hearing over and over and over again. She's [...]

Emerging in the mid-1990s, The Backstreet Boys quickly won over fans with their good looks and smooth vocal harmonies, selling out arenas and providing the soundtrack for a generation with songs like 'Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)' and 'I Want it That Way.' Fast-forward 25 years and the Boys are once again touring with a new album, DNA, which hit #1 on the Billboard charts. Member Howard Dorough, better known as Howie D., is not only enjoying this resurgence of the band's popularity, he's also introducing his own music to a whole new generation with his solo album, Which One Am I? This family album, written for all ages to listen to together, reflects Dorough's new perspective as a parent of two young sons., 'If anyone would have asked me if I would be interested in doing a family album 11 years ago, I would have thought they were off their rockers,' he says. [...]

One of the most momentous events in modern history happened 50 years ago this month, when Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, along with Commander Neil Armstrong and command module pilot Michael Collins were propelled roughly 238,000 miles into space with the moon as their target. Their dangerous and remarkable journey culminated with Aldrin and Armstrong becoming the first humans to walk on the moon., 'Even this many years later, it was a privilege to have been on that first manned mission to the lunar surface, an honor to have worked with so many good [...]

Soccer player Julie Ertz's lifelong dream came true when she and her U.S. Women's National Soccer teammates won the 2015 World Cup. Ertz's substantial personal contribution towards the victory made it only sweeter, having played every minute of the seven-game tournament. Now, the Chicago Red Stars midfielder and 2017 U.S. National Team Player of the Year has written a book to inspire young people to push themselves to succeed., Ertz shares her personal stories of triumph and adversity and writes candidly about her Christian faith which has sustained her through it all. 'For me, writing Chase Your Dreams was [...]

People who know Zack Bush, the nightlife kingpin and owner of one of Miami's coolest clubs, Ball & Chain, are often surprised to learn he's the same Zack Bush who [...]

What do you call a children's book featuring a coatimundi and a capybara as reluctant main characters whose sole topic of dialogue is how disappointed they are to be stuck [...]

In the three years since NBA great Kobe Bryant retired from the game, he's been displaying a whole new set of skills off the court. Most recently, he's created a [...]

In her critically-acclaimed, too-many-to-list-award-winning book, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus and the highly-anticipated sequel, Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus (Sterling Children's Books) due out [...]

Juana Martinez-Neal recently received the Caldecott Honor and the Ezra Jack Keats Award Honor for the first book she wrote and illustrated, Alma and How She Got Her Name (Candlewick [...]

Joseph Goodrich's debut book helps children understand the different feelings we all experience and offers them effective, age-appropriate strategies to manage their emotions. Recently named the Story Monsters Approved Book [...]

David Cole is a numbers guy. He has taught college-level math, ran a math-themed summer camp, and regularly coaches competitive, elementary school math teams. He recently added a children's book [...]

Talented 13-year-old twins Bianca and Chiara D'Ambrosio got their start in show business when they were just toddlers. Now they're accomplished actresses, models, and musicians with fans eager to follow [...]

The symbiotic duo of Chris Van Dusen and Kate DiCamillo are at it again. The illustrator/author team behind the widely popular Mercy Watson books has collaborated on a new porcine [...]

TV personality, interior designer, and lifestyle guru Joanna Gaines is celebrating National Gardening Month with her first children's book, We Are the Gardeners (Thomas Nelson). Gaines is best known for [...]

By all accounts, Rhett Miller is a pretty cool guy. He is the lead singer of the rock band, Old 97's (who recently celebrated their 25th anniversary), hosts a podcast [...]

Acclaimed Canadian illustrator John Martz has a new picture book, written by Nicola Winstanley, called How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps (Tundra Books). As the [...]

Jada Jones: Sleepover Scientist (Penguin Workshop) is the third book in Kelly Starling Lyons' popular series about a bubbly girl with a penchant for science. Lyons says she drew her [...]

The new book by author Beth Ferry and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld is a guidebook, of sorts, about one of the highlights of any child's year, the all-important birthday celebration. Together, [...]

It took a long time for Lisa Graff to conjure up the plot for her new middle grade book, Far Away (Philomel Books). It follows a 12-year-old girl named C.J. [...]

Who better to launch a graphic novel series for children about daring sea expeditions than Fabien Cousteau, grandson of revered oceanographer Jacques Cousteau? In the new series, Fabien Cousteau Expeditions, [...]

'I want my books to help kids learn about the reality of the streets. The whole goal of these books is to let them know that we're talking about real life. It's not a video game. If you mess up, you can't hit replay. You can't start over.', The unlikely happy ending to Ashshahid Muhammad's story speaks to the transformative power of art. At various points in his life, Muhammad has been homeless, jailed, a drug dealer and [...]

Author and cartoonist Alan Silberberg wrote his latest book to fill a particular void in the children's book market. 'When my son was growing up, we read a lot of [...]

For the first eight years of her life, Scott and Laura Jordan's beloved pet poodle, Margaux, was perfectly healthy. When a series of autoimmune diseases ravaged her body and caused [...]

When author/illustrator Jim Petipas was in high school, he and some friends wrote a silly song about cows which they performed for skit night at their summer camp. 'We came [...]

One never knows when inspiration might strike. When children's author Angela DiTerlizzi sent her editor Allyn Johnson a thank-you note for the gift of a sparkly napkin and tablecloth set, she included a short poem she had composed about the joys of glitter. It began, 'Has the rainy day got you down? Not feeling fancy in your gown? Want some shine upon your crown? Just add glitter!' Johnson thought the poem had potential to become a book in its own right and encouraged DiTerlizzi to keep writing. 'So I did,' says DiTerlizzi., 'Seven years and 10 drafts later, those few lines evolved into what would become the final manuscript for Just Add Glitter. The most common question I get from kids is, [...]

Taylor Moxey is only 12 years old, but she's already launched a successful business, written a book, created a foundation through which she runs her philanthropic endeavors, and was even named Black Soulutions' 2018 Woman of the Year. 'When I look back at everything that I've accomplished, it's something that 7-year-old me could never have imagined,' Moxey says. 'And to think that it all happened just because I wanted a Barbie doll.', As a young girl, Moxey enjoyed a special weekly tradition with her parents. 'After church every Sunday, we'd go to Target to shop and I would get a Barbie doll,' [...]

At age five, Rachael MacFarlane's eldest daughter wasn't drawn to dolls or any type of play typically associated with girls. Eschewing socially-prescribed gender roles during playtime at preschool earned her some pushback from the other kids. MacFarlane searched for a children's book about gender-neutral play to read to her daughter, to show her that there was no right or wrong way to play. When she couldn't find one, the highly in-demand voice actress decided to write one. Her first book, Eleanor Wyatt, Princess and Pirate, is a tribute to all kids who are like her daughter., 'I don't like to use labels like 'tomboy,'' says MacFarlane. 'She's just an individual, a kid, whose play is driven primarily by her imagination, not her gender.'In the book, a [...]

Ten-year-old Faithe Herman portrays Annie Pearson in the award-winning NBC show This Is Us. This is the first major television role for Herman, and although she's young, the fact that [...]

When creating a new book, children's author and illustrator Corinna Luyken prefers to not have everything perfectly planned out ahead of time. 'I really enjoy not knowing where I'm going,' [...]

For actress Ming-Na Wen, one of the most engaging things about portraying master martial artist Melinda May on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for the last five years has been the [...]

The only time 11-year-old Ellie feels truly comfortable in her own skin is when she's floating around in the swimming pool, where she can stretch out her limbs like a [...]

For nearly two decades, David Levithan has been a popular, New York Times best-selling YA author, with an ever-growing number of film and television adaptations of his work. Now, Levithan [...]

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, [...]

Abigail Harrison, aka Astronaut Abby, wants to be the first person to visit Mars. It's not just a pie-in-the-sky idea, it's a goal Harrison has been working towards her whole [...]

In Gone to the Woods, due out January 12, Paulsen describes the perils of being raised by alcoholic parents, the violence he witnessed living in the Philippines, and how he [...]

The latest book by author Leila Sales, The Campaign, is equal parts funny and inspirational. Sales' plot not only makes kids laugh, it provides a relatable example of a young [...]

Author Miguel Lopez de Leon's latest YA fantasy novel, Blue Cloak Warrior, features a diverse cast of characters seen in leadership roles. De Leon says it was important to him [...]