A fall harvest of recent children’s book news that caught my eye today:

The New York Times takes a look at The Children’s Authors Who Broke the Rules and became the people behind the classics.  The authors include Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, and Shel Silverstein.  So thank goodness they broke the rules!

Maurice Sendak takes on children’s books today in an article in The Guardian:

"There’s a certain passivity, a going back to childhood innocence that I never quite believed in. We remembered childhood as a very passionate, upsetting, silly, comic business." Max, the wolf-suited star of Where the Wild Things Are, "was a little beast, and we’re all little beasts", Sendak said.

NPR celebrates a new book of Shel Silverstain’s poetry that had never been published before.  I can’t wait to get my hands on this one!

USA Today shares some YA book news with a list of well-known authors of adult books who will be releasing teen novels soon.  They include Philippa Gregory, Jodi Picoult, Richard Paul Evans, among others.

And to finish up, you can read Katherine Paterson’s take on paper books and young adult literature.

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