Set in the early 1930s, SKY DANCERS is the story of a Mohawk boy who learns about family traditions and gains appreciation for nature after visiting his father at work as a steelworker building the Empire State Building. The story is a work of ...

Author, Trish Marx (left) and Photographer, Ellen B. Senisi

Steel Drumming at the Apollo: The Road to Super Top Dog, a new book by author Trish Marx and photographer Ellen B. Senisi, chronicles the experiences of the seven me...

Odilia and her four sister take the roadtrip of their lifetime in Summer of the Mariposas. On their journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico the cinco hermanitas meet many mythical creatures, includi...

On a Harlem morning in 1958 some of the most famous jazz musicians of the time gathered on the stoop of a brownstone to pose for Art Kane, a photographer on assignment for Esquire magazine. Years later, when author Debbie Taylor'...

  Even as a child, Kathleen D. Lindsey knew she wanted to be a writer. “When I was 4 years old,” says the author, “my Mom would give me old junk mail to keep me quiet, especially in church. I would scribble on every inch ...

Tankborn is about best friends Kayla and Mishalla, Genetically Engineered Non-humans on the planet Loka, as they begin to question the strict caste system of their world. In this BookTalk, author Karen Sandler discusses what...

Tashi and the Tibetan Flower Cure is the story of a young girl bringing together community and tradition to help her grandfather recover when he falls ill. In this BookTalk, Naomi C. Rose discusses Tibetan medicine and the p...

Linda Boyden’s debut as a children’s book author arrives with the publication of The Blue Roses. This touching picture book is especially significant to the author because it is based on a dream she had after her...

In The Can Man, Tim and a former neighbor, now homeless, bump into each other around the neighborhood as each collects cans to redeem for the deposits. Here, the author and illustrator talk about the difficulties of portraying a homele...

Uma Krishnaswami has a few things in common with Meena, the main character of her latest book, The Happiest Tree: A Yoga Story, published by LEE & LOW BOOKS.  “I used to be one of tho...

Authors, Frances Park (left) and Ginger Park

Frances Park and Ginger Park are more than sisters — they’re also partners. Both have been writing for children and adults for years, in addition to owning a small busin...

In The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby, Crystal Hubbard tells the story of Jimmy Winkfield's journey to became one of the best jockeys in horse racing and the last African American to win the prestigious Kentucky D...

The story of Dr. Gordon Sato’s work in Hargigo, Eritrea, is the inspiration for co-author and illustrator Susan L. Roth and co-author Cindy Trumbore’s book, The Mangrove Tree. In this BookTalk, Roth and Trumbore ...

Davida Adedjouma, Editor

"…after writing & writing & revising then…writing, again, there comes that special moment when the sound & rhythm & texture of words become uniqu...

While few artists remember the precise moment when they decided to make art their career, David Diaz is an exception. He clearly recalls the day in first grade when he completed a vowel worksheet that was filled with...

In 1953 a young Cuban attorney named Fidel Castro and a group of men and women attacked a military barrack in Santiago, Cuba. They wanted the people of Cuba to join them in a revo...