Month: October 2013

Conquering separation anxiety from a parent is a right-of-passage for both children and their parents. Mama Goes to Work is about a spunky sheep named Shelly that is forced to deal with separation anxiety when Mama starts a new job.

Young-adult fiction, commonly called “YA fiction,” has exploded over the past decade or so: The number of YA titles published grew more than 120 percent between 2002 and 2012, and other estimates say that between 1997 and 2009, that figure was closer to 900 percent. Ask a handful of young-adult fiction writers what exactly makes a YA novel, though, and you’ll get a handful of conflicting answers.

When the tablet revolution descended upon us, I was an early adopter for sure. I bought the first iteration of the iPad; I also got a Kindle. A voracious reader, I was now a voracious tech consumer.

Every kid deserves to be silly. And every grandma deserves to dance. No matter what anybody else thinks. Those are the two key themes in the new children’s picture ebook from award-winning author Kathy Lynn Harris and illustrator Katie MacGillivary.