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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Chris Van Allsburg
Best-selling author & illustrator Chris Van Allsburg talks about his work, movies and other topics in this video interview. Transcript available at the site.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells talks about her career in this video interview. Site includes biographical information, a transcript and a selected book list.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Walter Dean Myers
Watch while Walter Dean Myers, author of young adult books about African-American teens in Harlem talks about his book writing routine, what it's like to work with his son as illustrator and how his fans relate to his characters.
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Nikki Giovanni
Explore the work of Nikki Giovanni, an African-American poet and essayist who writes poems for adults and children and has written a book about Rosa Parks. Watch while she talks about heroes and the importance of reading and gives advice...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Ann Hoberman
Mary Ann Hoberman is the author of more than 40 books for children, including A House Is a House for Me and the popular shared reading series, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. Whether writing about llamas in pajamas or a raucous auk,...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Margaret Peterson Haddix
As a kid, Margaret Peterson Haddix was a real bookworm: she remembers her mother asking her to please put down her books to enjoy some of the scenery on family vacations. Haddix was so attached to reading, that she considered the...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Marla Frazee
Ever since elementary school, Marla Frazee knew that she wanted to illustrate children's books. Now she lives her childhood dream, stepping into her backyard studio each morning to do what she loves. Frazee has illustrated Sarah...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Marilyn Singer
Marilyn Singer has written all kinds of great books for children and young adults - picture books, fairy tales, mysteries, non-fiction, and novels - but poetry is her favorite genre. Singer is on a mission to "knock poetry off its...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series follows siblings Jack and Annie as they travel to distant times and places with the help of their magic tree house. To accompany these fiction books, Mary Pope Osborne also co-authors...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mac Barnett
Mac Barnett is the bestselling author of more than 20 books for children. Barnett writes the Brixton Brothers mystery series and, with Jory John, The Terrible Two novels. Barnett loves his work because, he says, kids are "the sincerest...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Marc Aronson
Marc Aronson has written history and biography books for middle school children and young adults, including books about the secrets of Stonehenge, the sugar trade, and the life of John Henry. His biography of Sir Walter Raleigh won the...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Amato
Mary Amato writes stories, poems, plays, and songs for children and young adults. Amato both writes and teaches writing to both students and teachers. Watch the interview to learn more about her and read a short biography about her life....
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Matthew Holm
Matt Holm has always loved to draw, especially comics. With his sister Jennifer Holm, he co-created two enormously popular graphic novels series - one featuring a pink-obsessed mouse (Babymouse) and another starring a brave amoeba...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Quattlebaum
Mary Quattlebaum is known for her pirate stories, such as her 2011 book, Pirate vs. Pirate, a blustery adventure pitting Mean Mo against Bad Bart to determine who has the most impressive pirate skills. Other titles celebrate nature or...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Matthew Cordell
Matthew Cordell writes and illustrates picture books and chapter books for children. His nearly wordless picture book, Wolf in the Snow, was awarded the 2018 Caldecott Medal. He has written and illustrated many popular (and often very...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Brigid Barrett
Mary Brigid Barrett is a children's book author and illustrator a professional educator, and mom of three artistic and book-loving children. Watch the interview to learn more about her and read a short biography about her life. Includes...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: R. L. Stine
R.L. Stine wrote humor and joke books until an editor asked him to write a young adult horror novel. After Blind Date became an instant best seller, Stine started a young adult horror series called Fear Street. In 1992, R.L. Stine wrote...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Rita Williams Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia has authored picture books for young readers and novels for young adult and middle grade readers. Many of her books are rooted in recent American history. In this interview, you'll learn about the origins of her book...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale is the author/illustrator of the award-winning historical fiction series Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales - graphic novel versions of sometimes-crazy-but-always-true stories from American history. In the interview, Nathan talks...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier writes and illustrates graphic novels for middle grade readers. Many of her books are autobiographical and deeply personal, especially her 2019 novel, Guts, which explores her own struggles with anxiety. Raina has also...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mem Fox
Mem Fox is Australia's best-known children's book author. Her books are tremendously popular in the US as well, and she has traveled widely as a writer, teacher, and passionate proponent of reading aloud to children. Watch the interview...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Robert Sabuda
Robert Sabuda is a self-taught pop-up book artist who is well-known for his three-dimensional books. Elaborate dinosaurs leap off the page. Colorful Christmas trees rise up and blink. Knights in shining armor joust before the king and...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Robert Neubecker
Robert Neubecker's picture books have zip - they burst with color, energy, and fun. Neubecker can really capture the world through a kid's eyes, whether it's the first day of school, a first trip to the big city, or the trials and...
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Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has published more than 135 books, never writing the same type of book twice in a row. She has written mysteries, historical fiction, Wild West yarns, scary tales, and memoirs. Watch the interview to learn more...