Cynsations is celebrating its 20th anniversary by switching to a quarterly publishing schedule, featuring in-depth interviews and articles. Thank you for your ongoing support and enthusiasm!
Congratulations to Byron Graves on the paperback release of Rez Ball (Heartdrum 2023), winner of the American Indian Youth Literature Award, the William C. Morris Award and Reading the West Award Winner.
Continue Reading Throwback Thursday: Author Byron Graves Talks About the Importance of Connection »
Congratulations to Janet Fox on the publication of Wintergarden, illustrated by Jasu Hu (Neal Porter Books, Nov. 7, 2023). From the promotional copy:
Winter outside the window,
Garden on the sill.
With a little bit of love and care, a few seeds nestled in pots,
Continue Reading Throwback Thursday: Author Interview: Janet Fox: Get Organized Without Losing It »
Congratulations to editors Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rocky Callen on the release of their new anthology, Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes (Candlewick, April 11, 2023). Contributors include: Mercedes Acosta, Karen Jialu Bao, James Bird, Rocky Callen, Nora Shalaway Carpenter,
Cynsations Reporter Elisabeth Norton is at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair this week, where she caught up with Sylvia Vardell. See their 2021 Cynsations interview about the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), and watch for Elisabeth’s Bologna 2023 post later this spring.
Meanwhile,
Continue Reading Throwback Thursday: SCBWI Bologna Author-Illustrator Interview: Naomi Kojima »
Congratulations to Lois Lowry on her newest book, The Windeby Puzzle (Clarion, Feb. 14, 2023). From the promotional copy:
Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.
Congratulations to Patricia Morris Buckley (Mohawk) on the publication of The First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller, illustrated by Aphelandra Messer (Oneida)(Random House Books for Young Readers, Feb 07, 2023). From the promotional copy:
In 1985, Wilma Pearl Mankiller became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Congratulations to author Charlotte Sullivan Wild and illustrator Charlene Chua on Love, Violet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022) winning the Stonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award.
It is given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay,
Congratulations to Gene Luen Yang, winner of the 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. He is the first graphic novelist to win the prestigious prize!
Take a look back at Gene’s 2018 Cynsations interview with fellow NSK Neustadt Prize winner, Cynthia Leitich Smith.
Author-Teacher Interview: Gene Luen Yang on Writing,
Continue Reading Throwback Thursday: Gene Luen Yang on Writing & Teaching »
Congratulations to Mari Mancusi on her newest book, New Dragon City (Little, Brown BYR, 2022)!
From the publisher’s description:
No one predicted the dragon apocalypse. The dragons came suddenly and decimated the world as we knew it, including New York City. Now, three years later, Noah, his hardcore survivalist father,
Congratulations to Tom Angleberger on the publication of his new graphic novel, Two-Headed Chicken (Candlewick, Sept. 6, 2022).
Take a look back at his reflection on Children’s Literature as a Team Sport. It first appeared on Cynsations in February 2020.
I’m coming up on the 10th anniversary of Origami Yoda (Amulet,