Kate DiCamillo received a Newbery Honor for her first novel, Because of Winn-Dixie, and the 2004 Newbery Medal for The Tale of Despereaux–both were made into major motion pictures. Here she discusses her beginning reader series starring Mercy …

Laurie Rosenwald is a painter, a type designer, a graphic artist and, of course, a writer and illustrator. Because she does so many different things, she works with many different media, or artist’s tools. She says that …

Little Pea, the story of a pea who would rather have spinach than candy any day, began as a naptime story that Amy Krouse Rosenthal told to her daughter. Since then, Little Pea has been joined by other unusual …

When Stephen Savage was offered the chance to illustrate The Fathers Are Coming Home, by the author of Goodnight Moon, he says, “I couldn’t believe it!” Margaret Wise Brown wrote this story in 1943, and it was discovered …

With Bunny, My Honey, author and artist Anita Jeram introduces Mommy Rabbit and her baby, Bunny, who “looked just like his mommy, only smaller.” (If you look closely, you can see that they even have the same brown ear, …