Author Interaction | Lesa Cline-Ransome
Lesa Cline-Ransome is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning picture books that celebrate in story, Satchel Paige, an ALA Notable Book and a Bank Street College “Best Children’s Book of the Year, Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist, Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star, Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, Benny Goodman and Teddy […]
Author Interaction | Padma Venkatraman
Padma is an award-winning author whose books have been featured on numerous best books lists. Her books have received over 20 starred reviews and won multiple awards including a SCBWI Golden Kite Award. Born Behind Bars is her new release which has recived a Kirkus starred review, Booklist starred review and SLJ starred review.
Author Interaction | C.G. Salamander and Rajiv Eipe
Rajiv Eipe is a renowned illustrator who won the 2020 Big Little Book Award. C.G. is a best-selling author of numerous picture books. Maithili and the Minotaur is his new graphic novel which has been received well.
Author Interaction | Patrice Lawrence
Patrice’s first book for young adults, Orangeboy, was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award and won the Bookseller YA Prize and Waterstone’s Prize for Older Children’s Fiction. She was nominated for the Carnegie Medal twice.
Author Interaction | Remy Lai
Remy Lai writes and draws stories for kids. She lives in Brisbane, Australia, where she can often be found exploring the woods near her home with her two dogs, Poop-Roller and Bossy Boots. Winner of the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor/ A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year/ An NPR Best Book […]
Author Interaction | Holly Goldberg Sloan
Holly is a popular author who previously worked in cinema and advertising. Her novel Counting by the 7s was one of the best middle grade novels of the year. Elephant in the Room is a humorous, heartwarming and enlightening tale about family separation and the connection between humans and animals.
Author Interaction | Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Lynda Mullaly Hunt is the author of New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree, as well as One for the Murphys, which is on thirty-one state award lists. She’s a former teacher, and holds writers retreats for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, […]
Author Interaction | Bijal Vachharajani
She is commissioning editor at Pratham books, and is the author of multiple books, including A Cloud Called Bhura (which won the AutHer Award for best children’s book). Savi and the Memory Keeper is her new novel that explores the constant tussle between progress and development, and conservation and ecological preservation.
Author Interaction | Polly Horvath
Bank Street Book of the Year 2021/ A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection/ Kirkus Starred Review Polly has won numerous awards including a National Book Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year, short-listed for Germany’s most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis , […]
Author Interaction | Veera Hiranandani
Veera is a Newbery Honor winning author. She has won mutliple awards and accolades, her book The Night Diary was judged the Best Children’s Book of the year by multiple organizations including New York Times and the School Library Journal. How to Find What You’re Not Looking For is a work of historical fiction that […]