Monday, July 11, 2016

Spotlight ON Interviews




This comprehensive list is in alphabetical order. 
Click on an individual's name to read their interview.


Alexander, Kwame (April 2015)
          featuring The Crossover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

Atkins, Jeannine (February 2017)
          featuring Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis (Atheneum, 2017)

Bornemann, Jesse Anna (August 2019)
          TLD reader spotlight

Boss, Karen (June 2019)
          Editor, Charlesbridge Publishing

Brown, Calef (October 2018)
          featuring The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poems (Carolrhoda Books, 2018)

Bruss, Deborah and Matt Forrest Esenwine (April 2018)
          featuring Don't Ask a Dinosaur (POW! Kids, 2018)

Clickard, Carrie (October 2017)
          featuring Magic for Sale (Holiday House, 2017)

Davis, Rebecca M. (November 2015)
          Senior Editor, Boyds Mills Press/WordSong

Degman, Lori (August 2014)
          featuring Cock-a-Doodle Oops! (Creston Books, 2014)

Elliott, David (February 2015)
          featuring On the Wing (Candlewick, 2014)

Engle, Margarita (March 2015)
          featuring Orangutanka: A Story in Poems (Henry Holt & Co., 2015)

Esenwine, Matt Forrest and Deborah Bruss (April 2018)
          featuring Don't Ask a Dinosaur (POW! Kids, 2018)

Ewert, Marcus (October 2015)
          featuring Mummy Cat (Clarion Books, 2015)

Florian, Douglas (January 2016)
          featuring The Wonderful Habits of Rabbits (Little Bee Books, 2016)

Fogliano, Julie (May 2018)
          featuring a house that once was (Roaring Brook Press, 2018)

Frost, Helen (March 2017)
          featuring When My Sister Started Kissing (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017)

Grimes, Nikki (May 2015)
          featuring Poems from the Attic (Lee & Low Books, 2015)

Grimes, Nikki (March 2018)
          featuring Between the Lines (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2018)

Harrison, David L. (February 2016)
          featuring Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Poems About Creatures That Hide
          (Charlesbridge, 2016)

Herzog, Rebecca (October 2019)
          TLD reader spotlight

Hinz, Carol (November 2017)
          Editorial Director, Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books (Lerner Publishing Group)

Hopkins, Lee Bennett (September 2015)
          featuring Jumping Off Library Shelves: A Book of Poems (WordSong, 2015)

Klostermann, Penny Parker (August 2015)
          featuring There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight
          (Random House  Books for Young Readers, 2015)

Latham, Irene (September 2014)
          featuring Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
          (Millbrook Press, 2014)

Lewis, J. Patrick (October 2014)
          featuring Everything is a Poem: The Best of J. Patrick Lewis (Creative Editions, 2014)

Lewis, J. Patrick and Jane Yolen (February 2018)
          featuring Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs (Charlesbridge, 2017)

Manlove, Melissa (May 2017)
          Senior Editor, Chronicle Books

Mitchell, Linda (July 2019)
          TLD reader spotlight

Murray, Diana (August 2016)
          featuring Ned the Knitting Pirate (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2016)

Nesbitt, Kenn (October 2016)
          featuring One Minute till Bedtime (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016)

Nye, Naomi Shihab (September 2018)
          featuring Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (Greenwillow Books, 2018)

O'Neil, Kate (November 2019)
          TLD reader spotlight

Raczka, Bob (November 2014)
          featuring Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole (Carolrhoda Books, 2014)

Rider, Ann (November 2016)
          Executive Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Salas, Laura Purdie (May 2014)
          featuring Water Can Be... (Millbrook Press, 2014)

Schwartz, Corey Rosen (June 2015)
          featuring What About Moose? (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015)

Shovan, Laura (May 2016)
          featuring The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary (Wendy Lamb Books, 2016)

Sidman, Joyce (January 2015)
          featuring Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

Silverman, Buffy (February 2020)
          featuring On a Snow-Melting Day: Seeking Signs of Spring (Millbrook Press, 2020)

Simon, Margaret (May 2020)
          TLD reader spotlight

Singer, Marilyn (April 2016)
          featuring Echo Echo: Reverso Poems about Greek Myths (Dial Books, 2016)

Steinglass, Elizabeth (May 2019)
          featuring Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer (WordSong, 2019)

VanDerwater, Amy Ludwig (March 2016)
          featuring Every Day Birds (Orchard Books, 2016)

Vardell, Sylvia and Janet Wong (June 2014)
          featuring The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science (Pomelo Books, 2014)

Weatherford, Carole Boston (September 2017)
          featuring Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library (Candlewick Press, 2017)

Whittingham, Jane (September 2019)
          TLD reader spotlight

Wissinger, Tamera Will (July 2014)
          featuring This Old Band (Sky Pony Press, 2014)

Wong, Janet and Sylvia Vardell (June 2014)
          featuring The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science (Pomelo Books, 2014)

Yeatts, Tabatha (March 2020)
          TLD reader spotlight

Yolen, Jane (September 2016)
          featuring The Alligator's Smile and Other Poems (Millbrook Press, 2016)

Yolen, Jane and J. Patrick Lewis (February 2018)
          featuring Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs (Charlesbridge, 2017)