Tag: Children’s books through Middle Grade
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Meet Shannon Hale
Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of over fifty books for preschoolers, kids, teens, and adults, selling more than fifteen million copies and translated into twenty-five languages worldwide. You can meet this author Monday 21 September (6:30 to 8 p.m.) at the Library! at Hillcrest. Utah resident Hale will discuss her newest…
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News Bits 20 July 26
(Nationally published short story) (How write picture books) (playwright’s play produced) Idaho writer James Patrick Focarile has been published by the Saturday Evening Post. You can read his story, “What Whiskey Won’t Cure,” online on their website. Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, author of the delightful The Horse Who Wanted to Fly, is teaching a workshop —…
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Middle-Grade Book Lands Well
Boise author Jan M. Flynn, whose debut novel Griffin Speaker — first in a middle-grade fantasy series from Disney-Hyperion Books — released on May 5, shares updates on how the book is being received. Already going into its second printing, Griffin Speaker has been named by Barnes & Noble as one of “The Best Kids’…
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Griffin Speaker
Jan Flynn (recently interviewed on IWU) will be joining Huda Shaltry during a free book launch event at Rediscovered Books in Boise on Saturday 9 May at 1 p.m. The book is Griffin Speaker, her debut, first-in-a-series middle grade fantasy. As an orphan on the lowest rung of society, twelve-year-old Rain is destined for a…
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Jan M. Flynn
She’s been published widely in anthologies and literary journals and has won international Writer’s Digest awards. Her creative nonfiction and personal essays have appeared in HuffPost, Chicken Soup for the Soul, in multiple publications on Medium.com, and on her Substack. On 5 May ’26 the first in her middle grade fantasy series, Griffin Speaker, will…
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Reading, Signing, Art
Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, author of the award-winning picture book The Horse Who Wanted to Fly, will be doing Storytime on Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 11 a.m. at Barnes and Noble 1315 N Milwaukee, Boise. Art project and book signing will follow. The Horse Who Wanted to Fly won a Winnie Award, is a finalist…
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The Horse Who Wanted to Fly
This beautifully illustrated children’s book tells the story of Charlie, a determined and speedy horse who, with the help of some human friends, proves once and for all that horses can indeed fly. After years of toiling away as a work horse, Charlie is finally recognized for his incredible speed and ends up as a…
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Princess Mimi’s Magical Quest
A fairy princess’s coming of age adventure, Princess Mimi is the second in command of the Sapphire Fairy Clan of Cyan Castle. She is bullied for her small size, weight and underdeveloped wings. She gets separated from her clan during a forest fire and is dropped in a far away forest by a Peregrine Falcon.…
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Write Cat-Lit?
The cat-celebrating website MewlaYoung.com recently posted news of 2024 contests for creative work featuring cats or “promot(ing) compassion for animals”. The Cat Writers’ Association (CWA) seeks work in a variety of mediums including: journalism, fiction, photography, videography, fine and commercial art. In addition, the PPTA is sponsored by Paws to Read month and others and…
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Best Amigas
We’re pleased to announce that prolific storyteller Patricia Santos Marcantonio has recently released a book for middle grades. Juana Méndez and Diane Conrad are going to save each other’s lives. Not with super heroics, but with a friendship that gets them through everything. And those girls are always up to something–eating goat burritos on July…
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And Dad’s a Vampire?!
Great lesson: sign up for your local public library’s newsletter! This is how I learned about a Book Release Party for LUMBERJACKULA, a hilarious middle-grade story about a boy with a lumberjack mom, a vampire dad — a boy who just wants to be a dancer. The event is Tuesday 19 July 2022 from 3…
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E. G. Moore
A vibrant and engaged author of YA and middle grade books from northern Idaho, E. G. has published two books, both middle grade novels: Do you have a writing routine? Where and when do you write? I have seasons of writing routines, mostly dictated by my roles as mother, wife, and worker. I often spend…
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Celebrating Powerful Peaceful Warriors
This book for younger readers is about two men who marched in different lands, but who evidenced the power of the idea of freedom and equality for all. Mahatma Gandhi began his nonviolent movement in 1915. Dr. Martin Luther King’s struggles became visible in the 1950s. But both men knew how essential it is to…
