Tricia Springstubb vividly remembers reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” from start to finish in one summer day, lying beneath a…
Browsing: MG interview
Learn more about the authors who create the middle-grade books we’ve come to know and love with Cracking the Cover’s in-depth interviews.
Stacy DeKeyser has always thought of books as very special things. She remembers being too young to read and wishing…
“Hair is fun and gross and weird and loveable,” says author Mary Thompson. Luscious locks are at the center of…
Christine Brodien-Jones loves dreaming stuff up. That’s probably what makes her a successful writer, specifically a writer for young readers.…
Like so many authors before her, Kristen Kittscher had a lifelong love of telling stories, but lacked the courage to…
A year ago, Jessica Day George introduced readers to Celie and the Castle Glower, a castle with a mind of…
“Writing has always felt like breathing,” Soman Chainani says. “If I don’t do it for a while, I start to…
Sarah Stewart Taylor aka S.S. Taylor began her writing career as a “borrower.” To be fair, she was 8. The…
As someone who loved books from the time she was little, Sheila O’Connor had many books that stand out from…
From the time she was a 10-year-old girl hanging around in her tree house reading books, Christina Gonzalez wanted to…