Neurodivergent author and creative-writing instructor, Meg Eden Kuyatt, shares her debut novel geared towards middle-grade readers in Good Different. “So, Good Different is about an autistic girl who wishes she was powerful like a dragon and learns to find her power through writing poems.” Written in verse, the heroine, Selah, is experiencing what many middle-school Read More

Children’s book author, Deborah Wiles, chats with us about her biography picture book, Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy. Beautifully illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Bobby tells the life story of President John F. Kennedy’s younger brother and covers the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy himself. “Bobby is really a Read More

Children’s author, Rachel Vail, chats with us to discuss her newest book, Sometimes I Grumblesquinch. The story, a companion title to her best-seller,Sometimes I Bombaloo, tells of a girl named Katie who has big, angry feelings towards her little brother, Chuck. As readers engage in the story, they see as Katie grumblesquinches and suppresses her Read More

I survived the attacks of September 11, 2001 – the graphic novel version of the latest in Lauren Tarshis popular I Survived – series for children. She talks about how it began. “I started writing the series more than ten years ago. And I would say it was shaped by a couple of different forces. Read More

I dream of Popo, a richly illustrated children’s book, shares it’s creators childhood immigrant experiences. It’s author, Livia Blackburn immigrated from Taiwan with her family at age five. The illustrator, Julia Kuo’s family immigrated from Taiwan before she was born, Both of them leaving their culture and extended families behind. “There are a lot of Read More

“My over all goal was to harness the spirit of fun and whimsy and a kind of madcap adventure, and have that spirit infuse my novel.” Giggle and laugh along with Writers Voices as we talk with Rajani LaRossi about her new novel for children – Midsummer’s Mayhem. “She ( the main character) thinks of Read More

“The first year that I did it I remember kind of thinking ‘What did I get myself into?’ ’cause every night I’d have to come up with a mission for the next morning.” Sarah Linden joins Writers voices to talk about the creation of – North Pole Ninjas – Mission Christmas, along with her co-author Read More

Marie Unanue talks with Monica and Caroline about her new children’s book – The Adventures of Phatty & Payaso, Central Park. “Characterlab.org (has) researched children.. they have come up with the character skills that are missing in today’s children…Empathy is such a hard skill to teach, because you have to ask the child to be Read More

“I wrote it and it was the truest truth I could write” Writer’s Voices spends a delightful hour with the author of – Almost Paradise. A novel for young and old. “Something about the words on the page coming out of your deepest places perfect. I don’t know how it works.” The important thing is Read More

Laura Schroff is the co-author, along with Alex Tresniowski ,of the #1 New York Times bestseller, “An Invisible Thread,” based on Laura’s own story of how she befriended Maurice, a boy she met panhandling on the street.   Tune into this interview to hear the remarkable tale of serendipity that resulted in both that first Read More

Cheryl Fusco Johnson welcomes children’s author Dori Butler and her publicist Michelle Bayuk. Dori is the author of many children’s books and stories. Her book “The Buddy Files: Case of the Lost Boy” won the 2011 Edgar Award. Dori has been “ghostwriter” for ten Sweet Valley Twins and Boxcar Children books. With 20 years experience Read More

On this Writers’ Voices, Cheryl Fusco Johnson visits with children’s book illustrator, Jeni Reeves. Jeni has been illustrating children’s picture books, since 1998, for the Lerner Publishing Group. Her work ranging from American biography and history to world culture and folklore, She recently began illustrating for a new series, ‘History Speaks’ which dramatizes important events Read More

Children’s book author, Kathy Brodsky, makes a visit to Writers’ Voices. “The Winner Is…”, her most recent book, tells the humorous story of a dog who tries to be someone else in order to win a contest. Her other books include,“My Bent Tree”, “The Inside Story”, “Just Sniffing Around” and “Purrsnikitty”. Having worked as a Read More

On this Writers’ Voices, Cheryl Fusco Johnson talks with children’s book author, Rebecca Janni. Rebecca recently sold four books, despite having four young children at home. Dutton Children’s Books released her first picture book, “Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse”, in 2010 and has purchased two sequels, including “Every Cowgirl Needs Dancing Boots”, slated for publication Read More