Noblemania

You haven’t noticed (because why would you) that I rarely post about sports. ( Tangential exception. ) However, to my surprise, sports post...

If you grew up in the 1970s, you remember this magazine. I remember ordering an issue with Superman on the cover through the Scholastic Book...

“…I have come to realise over time that I call them just that. Picture books. Not children’s books…I don’t believe they are just for childre...

Not to be confused with my first-ever book store signing … The first time I signed books in public was on 11/9/96 at the Rizzoli Book Fair ...

In 1975, Ally Sheedy’s first novel came out. She was 13 years old. The name on the cover is “Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy”…but yes, it’...

As has happened multiple times before , I spent the second two weeks of October speaking in schools far from home. This time, in the unspoil...

Chance brought me to the almost inevitable place to celebrate when my book The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra comes out (hopefully in 2016)....

On 10/19/14, Robert Porfirio passed away. I never met Bob and know little about him. What I do know is that he was wonderfully kind...and o...

Like many authors of books for young people, I’ve long admired Jon Scieszka for his humor, his generosity, and his grooming. Once I had the ...

Thank you again to Dean Phillips, owner of the spacious and special comic book shop Krypton Comics in Omaha, for inviting me to do a signing...

Felix Explores Our World (1999) sequelizes (and incorporates) The Felix Activity Book (1996).   Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day Gr...

Thank you to Spiritual Pop Culture for calling my pop culture interviews “addictive.” It is greatly appreciated.  

Mark Waid wrote the biographies of the men who wrote and drew the stories featured in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (1988). H...