Interviews Janet Wong is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former lawyer who switched careers to become a children’s author. Her dramatic career change has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN’s Paula Zahn Show, and Radical Sabbatical. She is the author of more than thirty books for children and teens on a wide variety of subjects, including identity (A Suitcase of Seaweed & MORE), writing and revision (You Have to Write), diversity and community (Apple Pie 4th of July), peer pressure (Me and Rolly Maloo), chess (Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club), and yoga (Twist: Yoga Poems). A frequent featured speaker at literacy conferences, Wong has served as a member of several national committees, including the NCTE Poetry Committee and the ILA Notable Books for a Global Society committee. Together with Sylvia Vardell, she is the co-creator of The Poetry Friday Anthology series published by Pomelo Books. In addition to serving as a juror for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, Wong will participate in the Readings and Book Giveaways by the 2021 NSK Prize Jury event. Q: What was your first favorite book, the book that made you a reader? A: I think it might’ve been The Story of Bubbles the Whale—a picture book about the orca that was at Marineland, an aquatic theme park about fifteen miles from my house when I was a child. I went to Marineland when I was three or four years old, and it made a huge... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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Welsh independent publisher Graffeg has released artwork for There’s Only One of Me, a picture book about losing a parent, by cancer patient Lisa Wells and picture book author Michelle Robinson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The team behind a picture book created by Lisa Wells, who has terminal cancer, has surpassed its initial crowdfunding target of £5,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cancer sufferer Lisa Wells has chosen illustrators Tim Budgen and Catalina Eccheveri to work on There’s Only One of Me, her picture book about the death of a parent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A woman with terminal cancer is working on publishing a picture book about the death of a parent with the help of authors, publishers and agents. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nobrow will next month publish a second picture book by Switzerland-based illustrator Francesca Sanna. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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REVIEW: Duck, Death & the Tulip by acclaimed writer/illustrator Wolf Erlbruch, is a beautiful and unsettling children's picture book which can be enjoyed by all ages. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Palazzo Editions is publishing a children’s picture book of Brian Bilston’s poem 'Refugees' after signing world rights from Unbound. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children’s Books has revealed the cover of Judith Kerr’s new picture book to celebrate the author’s 95th birthday. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group will next year publish The Colour of Happy, a picture book about emotions and empathy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Madeleine Albright has the #1 book in the country with ‘Fascism.’ Plus Junot Díaz writes his first picture book, and Madeline Miller shines a spotlight on the sorceress ‘Circe.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judith Kerr’s next picture book, Mummy Time, will be published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in the UK in September. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OUP has bought a new picture book by Mike Brownlow, author of Orchard Books’ Ten Little... series, while selling Harriet Muncaster’s Isadora Moon series into three languages Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder Children’s Books has bought the world English rights (excluding the ANZ region and North America) to a new picture book by Shaun Tan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oneworld will make its first foray into picture books with the début children’s title from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author and illustrator begins a bumper year of publishing with a new picture book that promises colour, collusion and chaos. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV presenter and pop star Rochelle Humes will publish a picture book with Kings Road Publishing's Studio Press later this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ehsan Abdollahi, the illustrator who hit the headlines after being refused a visa to visit the Edinburgh International Book Festival, is teaming up with Jackie Morris on a picture book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Pikku is hoping to remind children about the importance of libraries with a new picture book about Andrew Carnegie, who funded more than 600 libraries in the UK and Ireland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thames & Hudson is publishing a children’s book by bestselling author Allan Ahlberg and illustrator Bruce Ingman about a picture book "going wrong". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orchard Books, part of Hachette Children’s Group, will this July publish I Really Want That Unicorn, a new picture book by Fabi Santiago. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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