Nancy Stewart Books

It's getting to be that time of year again! Lights, jingling bells, gifts wrapped in enticing paper, grins, smiles, snow (real and imag...

Violette Sinclair was always in my heart. She emerged almost fully-formed after the untimely death of my cousin Jill, who faced many obst...

“When I was growing up, I never saw a book cover or read a book about someone who looked like me.”  Renee Watson This heartrend...

As parents and educators, we ask ourselves the question throughout our adult lives. And if we had literacy problems as kids, we were h...

My Young adult novel, Beulah Land was published by Interlude Press November 2017. I am publishing the review from my hometown newspaper, t...

The process of reading Young Adult books usually begins around the age of fourteen, when the Middle Grade phase of reading books for ple...

How does a seventeen-year-old gay girl survive life in the Missouri Ozarks, where every day can be a threat to her existence? My debut Youn...

Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day was published in 1962.  As a book with an African-American protagonist, publishers had considered stories ...

The Syrian Crisis is a human disaster of epic proportions.  And, of course, the effect on children is beyond egregious. It has caused some ...

What a lovely surprise for fans of Maurice Sendak !    Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, was going through t...

In October, 2017, there will be Good Day, Good Night , a previously unpublished book by Margaret Wise Brown. It consists of two fragmen...

I have posted my letter to the Dear Reader, Love, Author Blog .  Hope you enjoy it!   Dear Reader,     Have you ever walked along a b...

Children’s Book Week began in 1913. Franklin K. Matthiews , the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, began touring the country to promo...

Re-titled to reflect Roald Dahl’s original name for the book,  Billy and the Minpins (1991) is the first time Quentin Blake has illustrat...

A bedtime story Mark Twain told his daughters in 1879 — never published before — will be released this fall as a children’s book. The Pu...