Author and Illustrator Interviews

authors online Who doesn’t love the story behind the story? Authors and illustrators don’t just love writing books, they love talking about books! Sharing their inspiration, explaining their writing process … you get the idea.

In our digital age it is very easy to “meet the author.” It is humanly impossible to keep up with content from individual authors, so we are taking a different approach: we’re leaving it to the professionals! What you have here is our list of resource that compile interviews with children’s authors. Use these lists to find your favorite author or illustrator, from picture books to young adult.

Adolescent Literacy (Adlit.org) Meet the Author video collection

Just One More Book Website and podcast reviews of children’s books. Meet authors, publishers, and others involved in writing books that kids will love.

Kidlit Interviews Wiki – The Kidlitosphere (blogs and podcasts about Children’s Literature and Literacy) is filled with interviews of children’s literature creators and children’s literacy promoters. This site will take you to interviews with creators of children’s books and promoters of literacy from all over the kidlitosphere. Just click on a category and go!

National Public radio (NPR) Podcasts NPR provides podcasts of author interviews, book reviews, and other goodies.

Reading Rockets Check out this link to a multitude of video interviews with renowned children’s authors and illustrators. The list includes Bill Martin, Jr., Judy Blume, Marc Brown, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Mary Pope Osborne to name a few!

Read, Write, Think – The Read, Write, Think website includes Emily Manning’s podcast “Chatting with Books.” You can subscribe to it through I-tunes. She chats with kids, parents, and teachers about the best in children’s literature for ages 4-11. In each podcast, she typically interviews a popular author as well. I’ve found many new books for my kids (and myself) through this podcast series.