Author Interaction | Julian Sedgwick
A well-received part-manga, part-prose coming-of-age story about a fifteen-year-old girl caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. This book has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2022.
Author Interaction | Ross Welford
This book was a Times Children’s Book of the Week. Ross Welford has been nominated for 17 awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, Costa Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards.
Author Interaction | Katherine Applegate
Katherine Applegate is a Newbery Medal winning author who is also the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous books. Willodeen, her new release, is a timely and timeless tale about our fragile earth, and one girl’s fierce determination to make a difference.
Author Interaction | Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo is a Newbery Medal winning, New York Times Bestselling author. She also won the Newbery Honor for her debut novel. She is a former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The Beatryce Prophecy is her new novel, and has garnered over 5 starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus Reviews among others.
Author Interaction | Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor is an award winning author and illustrator. He illustrated the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Malamander is a well-received book with great reviews. It was the The Bookseller, children’s Book of the Month, and The Times, Children’s Book of the Week.
Author Interaction | Supriya Kelkar
Supriya won the 2019 Neev Book Award for her middle grade novel Ahimsa. She has worked on the writing teams of several Hindi films. American as Paneer Pie is a School Library Journal Best Book of 2020. It is also a highly commendable book of the 2021 South Asia Book Awards.
Author Interaction | Divya Arya
Divya Arya is an award winning BBC journalist. Postbox Kashmir is a contemporary Indian book written in a unique epistolary format.
Author Interaction | Rohan Chakravarty
Rohan Chakravarty is an award winning conservationist cartoonist. His cartoon series Green Humour is the first series of cartoons and comic strips from India to be distributed internationally, and won awards from the UNDP, Sanctuary Asia and WWF International among others.
Author Interaction | Donna Barba Higuera
Supriya won the 2019 Neev Book Award for her middle grade novel Ahimsa. She has worked on the writing teams of several Hindi films. American as Paneer Pie is a School Library Journal Best Book of 2020. It is also a highly commendable book of the 2021 South Asia Book Awards.