This month’s Author Spotlight is Maysa Odeh, debut author of A Map for Falasteen, a heartfelt picture book about a Palestinian American child’s search for home illustrated by Aliaa Betawi.
MacKids Spotlight: Maysa Odeh
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MacKids Spotlight: Kalela Williams
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights Kalela Williams, author of Tangleroot, a debut YA novel about a girl who must face hard truths about blood and family, history and mystery.
MacKids Spotlight: Craig Kofi Farmer
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights Craig Kofi Farmer, author of Kwame Crashes the Underworld, a stunning middle grade fantasy novel about a boy hurled into the Ghanaian underworld to help his grandmother save humanity!
MacKids Spotlight: Allen R. Wells
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights Allen R. Wells, author of It’s Pride, Baby!, a joyful picture book debut encouraging kids to take pride in themselves and know they are loved no matter what.
Discover More about it’s pride, babyMacKids Spotlight: Adam Pottle and Ziyue Chen
This month’s Creator Spotlight highlights Adam Pottle and Ziyue Chen, author and illustrator of Butterfly on the Wind, a magical picture book about a Deaf girl who creates a butterfly with Sign Language and sends it on a journey around the world.
Discover More about butterfly on the windMacKids Spotlight: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights New York Times bestselling author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé as she discusses Where Sleeping Girls Lie, her latest YA contemporary mystery about a girl new to a boarding school who discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.
LEARN MORE ABOUT FARIDAH AND WHERE SLEEPING GIRLS LIE→MacKids Spotlight: DeAnn Wiley
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights DeAnn Wiley, the author of Homegrown, a touching and stunningly illustrated ode to the homes—and loved ones—that raise us.
DISCOVER MORE ABOUT DeAnn Wiley AND HomegrownHow This Book Was Made: Jumper by Jessica Lanan
Go behind the scenes of Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan. Read on for an interview with Jessica, Emily Feinberg, Executive Editor at Roaring Brook Press, and Mike Burroughs, Senior Designer at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group to learn more about how this book was made, preview interior art, and jaw dropping 3D models.
Continue readingMacKids Spotlight: Ekua Holmes
For Black History Month, we are interviewing Ekua Holmes, illustrator of Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King, a picture book autobiography celebrating the life of the extraordinary civil and human rights activist Coretta Scott King.
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MacKids Spotlight: Allie Millington
MacKids Spotlight: Allie Millington
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights Allie Millington, the author of Olivetti, a heartfelt debut middle-grade novel told from the unique vantage points of an introverted boy and his missing mother’s cherished typewriter. It’s also already received two starred reviews this year!
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