Noblemania

Betsy Bird writing for School Library Journal  asked me and fellow authors including Candace Fleming, Chris Barton, Deborah Heiligman, and C...

Seventy-seven years ago today, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, bringing America into World War II. Less a year later, the Japan...

In October 2017, I heard from Laura Dershewitz, a friend-of-a-friend who was inspired by a recent obituary to try to write a nonfiction pic...

Biographies are not life stories. They are stories from a life. They don’t include all. And they don’t always go from birth to death . Some...

I discovered The New Yorker (specifically the cartoons) when I was in high school (specifically in the waiting room of my dentist ’s off...

Some kids think nonfiction is boring. I don’t blame them. Some adults think so, too, and some nonfiction is boring. Then again, so is some ...

I didn’t consciously notice this while writing it, but Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman doesn’t follow a traditional no...

In Florida, commendable parenting is afoot. I caught wind of something unusual and wonderful: a library created to motivate kids to read non...

On 11/21/13, I returned to Boston, the city of my college years, and for another academic reason: the National Council of Teachers of Englis...

Here is a family tree for Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator of Batman and star of Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman . N...

The May/June 2013 issue of The Horn Book includes the first article I have written for that esteemed magazine . It is a variation and exten...

That “lives” could be a verb or a noun; we discussed both. Me, two other cowboys, and two fine cowgirls (AKA Brian Floca, Chris Barton, M...

Chris Barton. Shana Corey. Brian Floca. Megan McCarthy. Me. (I am still in alphabetical order this way.) On 4/21/13, from 3 to 5:4...

In August 2012, after I’d appeared on NPR for Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman , I received the following (excerpted) m...

The quest continues for a publisher for my nonfiction picture book manuscript about a man who flies—but not with a cape . (As was typical fo...

Embedded within these humbling reactions (most from educators) to Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman are some great sugg...