Matt Phelan is the first-time author of Druthers (Candlewick, 2014). From the promotional copy:
With warmth and humor, award-winning author-illustrator Matt Phelan follows a child as she leads her daddy on some rainy-day flights of fancy.
It’s raining and raining and raining,
Miriam and Lucy
Miriam Busch is the first-time author of
Lion, Lion, illustrated by Larry Day (Balzer & Bray, 2014). From the promotional copy:
A little boy is looking for Lion.
Lion is looking for lunch.
Tracy Holczer is the first-time author of The Secret Hum of a Daisy (Putnam, 2014). From the promotional copy:
Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies.
Continue Reading New Voice: Tracy Holczer on The Secret Hum of a Daisy »
Christine Kohler is the first-time author of No Surrender Soldier (Merit Press, 2014). From the promotional copy:
A young man, an old soldier, and a terrible injustice. Should the punishment be death?
Growing up on Guam in 1972,
Continue Reading New Voice: Christine Kohler on No Surrender Soldier »
David Zeltser is the first-time author of Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age: How One Small Boy Saved Our Big, Dumb Species (Egmont, 2014). From the promotional copy:
In Lug’s Stone Age clan, a caveboy becomes a caveman by catching a jungle llama and riding it against the rival Boar Rider clan in the Big Game.
Continue Reading New Voice: David Zeltser on Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age »
