by Admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Blog
Phil Bildner: Half a Life, Half My Life The First State of Being A few months ago, I read Erin Entrada Kelly’s brilliant middle grade novel, The First State of Being. There’s a scene in the middle of the book where Mr. Mosley is sharing words of wisdom with Michael,...
by Cristin Terrill | Jul 15, 2024 | Blog
One of the surprising gifts of author travel is that you get to experience cities that you might never have chosen as a destination in your personal life. It’s almost always a wonderful surprise. I’ve been lucky enough to visit splashy places like New York City, Los...
by Cristin Terrill | Jul 10, 2024 | Blog, News
For the next three weeks, author Vera Brosgol (Be Prepared, Anya’s Ghost, Memory Jars, and the Caldecott Honor-winning Leave Me Alone) will be in Alaska. She’ll be doing an art residency aboard a research vessel in the Aleutian Islands and documenting all that she...
by Phil Bildner | May 22, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Every student deserves to experience an author visit. It doesn’t matter if they attend a rural Title I school in York County, Nebraska or an elite prep school on the Upper West Side of New York City, every student should have the opportunity to experience an author...
by Cristin Terrill | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog
Jeff Zentner is the recipient of the William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, and the International Literacy Association Award, among others, and has been twice nominated for the Carnegie Medal. He is the author of The Serpent King, a New York Times...
by Cristin Terrill | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog
It’s no accident that my new middle grade novel, Merci Suárez Changes Gears (Candlewick Press, Sept 2018) opens on picture day at Seaward Pines Academy. Uy! When I think back to my school days at P.S. 22 in Queens, there weren’t many humiliations greater than that....
