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Interview: Mark Seigel, author of Sailor Twain

Jan 23, 2013

Mentioned by several media outlets (including GNR) as one of the best graphic novels of 2012, Sailor Twain is a mesmerizing and haunting story. Writer and artist Mark Siegel spent years creating the story, while also serving as publisher of First Second Books. We went behind the scenes with Mark to see what led to the creation of this starkly beautiful mermaid tale.

Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, author of The 13th Sign

What if there was a 13th zodiac sign?

You’re no longer Sagittarius, but Ophiuchus, the healer, the 13th sign.

Your personality has changed. So has your mom’s and your best friend’s.

What about the rest of the world?

What if you were the one who accidentally unlocked the 13th sign, causing this world-altering change and infuriating the other 12 signs? 

Jalen did it, and now she must use every ounce of her strength and cunning to send the signs back where they belong. Lives, including her own, depend upon it.

Gordon McAlpine, author of The Tell-Tale Start: The Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe, Book 1

Meet Edgar and Allan Poe --- 12-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They look and act so much alike that they're almost one mischievous, prank-playing boy in two bodies. When their beloved black cat, Roderick Usher, is kidnapped and transported to the Midwest, Edgar and Allan convince their guardians that it's time for a road trip. Along the way, mayhem and mystery ensue, as well as deeper questions: What is the boys' telepathic connection?

John Boyne, author of The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket

Barnaby Brocket is an ordinary eight-year-old boy in most ways, but he was born different in one important way: he floats. Unlike everyone else, Barnaby does not obey the law of gravity. His parents, who have a horror of being noticed, want desperately for Barnaby to be normal, but he can't help who he is. And when the unthinkable happens, Barnaby finds himself on a journey that takes him all over the world. From Brazil to New York, Canada to Ireland, and even to space, the floating boy meets all sorts of different people --- and discovers who he really is along the way.

Interview: Eugene Byrne , author of Darwin: A Graphic Biography

Jan 23, 2013

One of the most controversial and discussed figures of the 19th century, Charles Darwin continues to fascinate (and sometimes enrage) people around the world. Storytellers Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr are two of the latest to tell Darwin’s life story, this time in the form of a graphic novel. Byrne took some time to answer our questions about the book and about Darwin.

Calvin Trillin

I never did very well in math --- I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

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Calvin Trillin