Jacqueline Woodson Wins the Hans Christian Anderson Award

Penguin Random House author Jacqueline Woodson was named the 2020 Recipient of the Hans Christian Anderson Award! The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. Given every other year by IBBY, the award recognize lifelong achievement and is presented to an author and an

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Colson Whiteheads Wins Pulitzer Prize for The Nickel Boys

“A spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption.” – The Pulitzer Prize citation for Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, this time for The Nickel Boys. He

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Cover Art, Title, and On-Sale Date of Ransom Riggs’ Next Book Revealed

Dutton Books for Young Readers is publishing Ransom Riggs’ A MAP OF DAYS: The Fourth Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children on October 2, 2018.   USA Today broke this news Thursday afternoon, when the national newspaper also unveiled the book’s cover art (see below) and spoke with Riggs about what fans can expect in this next installation of the internationally

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