Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George was born in a family of naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were students of nature. On weekends they camped in the woods near their Washington, D.C. home, climbed trees to study owls, gathered edible plants and made fish hooks from twigs. Her first pet was a turkey vulture. In […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author J D Webb
J D Webb is the author of Shepherd’s Pie, Moon Over Chicago, Her Name is Mommy, and the upcoming Smudge. His self-stated wish is to intrigue and entertain everyone, and with his fiction he has proven successful. Here is an excerpt from the bio section of Mr. Webb’s website: “Four years in the Security Service […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Ingrid Law
Ingrid Law is the New York Times best-selling author of Savvy and Scumble. Click here to read my review of Savy. Here is Ingrid Law in her own words: Perhaps it was the Lake Champlain monster that started it all. Born in northern New York in May, 1970, my first home was a stone’s throw […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Hilary Wagner
Hilary Wagner is the author of Nightshade City. Click here to read my review. Her website is http://www.nightshadecity.com/, and you should follow her blog, http://www.hilarywagner.blogspot.com/. And here is Hilary Wagner in her own words: I write middle-grade and young adult novels. I love beautifully written, colorful stories, which leave me still thinking about them the next day–a touch […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Greg Trine
Greg Trine is the author of the Melvin Beederman Superhero series. Click here to read my review of The Brotherhood of the Traveling Underpants. From his website: “Greg Trine lives in his hideout in California, where he has been saving the world since the seventh grade. What was he doing before this time? He doesn’t […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Filmmaker Tom Whitus
Tom Whitus has been a film director since 1997, when he made the short film Parts in New York City. The film was picked up for worldwide distribution by NYC-based distributor The Cinema Guild. Since then, Tom has directed the feature films More Than Puppy Love (2000), Threat of Exposure (2002), The Only Witness (2003, showed on Lifetime Network in 2004),Matchmaker Mary (2008), Jr. Detective […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Elizabeth Laban
ELIZABETH LABAN worked at NBC News, taught at a community college, and has written for several magazines and newspapers. The Tragedy Paper is her first young adult novel. She lives in Philadelphia with her family. Click here to read my review of The Tragedy Paper. And now Elizabeth Laban faces the 7 Questions: Question Seven: […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Elissa Brent Weissman
Elissa Brent Weissman has wanted to write children’s books since she started reading them. She wrote her first novel when she was 10, and when no one wanted to publish it, she was sad for a little while but then just became more driven. She accomplished her goal in 2009, when her first two novels […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Editor Peggy Tierney
Peggy Tierney founded Tanglewood Publishing in 2003, just after her move to the Midwest. Peggy has been a children’s book editor and publisher in the UK and in the US since 1995. She has a degree in comparative literature from the American University of Paris, has lived to read since she first learned her alphabet, […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Editor Kendra Levin
Kendra Levin is a senior editor at Viking Children’s Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), where she has spent the past eight years working on a wide range of children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels. Prior to that, she worked at Scholastic. Kendra also helps writers as a teacher and certified […]