PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists is offered annually and awards $5,000 to an author of children’s or young adult fiction. More
2018 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship is offered annually and awards $5,000 to an author of children’s or young adult fiction. More
Fatima Shaik: ”Books Like These Are Meant to be Troubling”
On Tuesday, December 6, the Accomack County Public Schools Board, in eastern Virginia, voted to return the books To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn to county classrooms. The… More
Climbing Monkey Hill
Everyone made too big a deal of things she would do naturally, Levia thought, like to go to high school. She had a better plan. More
Announcing the 2014 PEN Literary Award Winners
PEN is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Literary Awards. Each year, the PEN Awards celebrate some of the most outstanding voices in literature, spanning a wide… More
PEN Fights Robie Harris Book Ban in Singapore
The best literature for children both reflects and responds to changing social mores and realities. More
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau
His home is a shabby little studio, where one pot of stew must last the whole week. But every morning he wakes up and smiles at his pictures. More
Children’s Literature: Braving Our Endangered World
Writers for children and young adults show how people interact with nature, and reveal the world as a fascinating and ever-changing place with troubles all its own—rising temperatures, shrinking… More
Children’s Book Committee Relocates Library to New Orleans
Through the initiative of Committee Co-Chair Fatima Shaik, the Children's/Young Adult Book Authors Committee helped move an elementary school library from St. Joseph's School in Greenwich Village, New York… More
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