Author-illustrator Amy Schwartz, best known for her warm, humorous tales with a kid-centered point of view, died suddenly on February 26 at her home in Brooklyn; she was 68.
Children s Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2020 Compiled by Diane Roback | Dec 22, 2020
We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year, frontlist or backlist, and what they loved about it. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published. Happy reading!
Jamie Tan, senior publicist, Candlewick Press
I’ve been craving the kind of books that I would devour in high school: floppy backlist paperbacks that are easy to hold in one hand while snacking with the other, with stories that I want to reread again and again. I’ve had