The Pulitzer-winning humorist on writing for kids, and the trick to showing kids how reading is "less boring than math." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
As he did with the villains of Peter Pan (in "Peter and the Starcatchers," written with Dave Barry) and Disney (in "Kingdom Keepers"), Ridley Pearson reimagines the lives of two famous fictional characters in his latest middle-grade series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for the 2013 Thurber Prize for American Humor include Shalom Auslander for his darkly funny novel "Hope, A Tragedy."The finalists for the 2013 Thurber Prize for American Humor include Shalom Auslander for his darkly funny novel "Hope, A Tragedy." But all is not grim: The other... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]