Maybe the number one question I get at school visits is some variation of, “Which of your books do you like the best?” And I always go to the lame-sounding line about how they’re all my children, and I can’t really choose… There’s truth to that, but honsety, I do usually favorite my newest kid. […]

Here’s a great new review of Born to Fly – in the New York Times Book Review. Not a bad place to get one of the best reviews a book of mine has ever received…

Next step: get out there and start spreading the word…

It’s always a huge honor to get invited to do a radio interview with Joe Donahue on WAMC. Today we talked about my new book Born to Fly – check out the conversation here!

I always wanted to make movies, so it was fun to put together this trailer for my new book, Born to Fly. Okay, now back to my actual job…

Happy to report that Born to Fly has gotten two more starred reviews, from School Library Journal and the The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. And here’s a really great new one from Shelf Awareness. (Yes, I particularly like the “barn burner” line)…

Here’s a new online interview with PW about my upcoming book, Born to Fly. The book will finally be out in September!

In between writing my ‘serious’ nonfiction books, I’ve had a lot of fun coming up with history/comedy mashups for my new Time Twisters chapter book series. Books 3 and 4 in the series – Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, Space Cowboys, and Amelia Earhart and the Flying Chariot – will be out June 25. Publishers […]

It’s always an exciting day to get my first look at the advance copies of a new book. Of course, I secretly know they’re still full of typos… but still, it finally feels like the book is almost here. My new one, Born To Fly, tells the story of the 1929 Women’s Air Derby, the […]

How is writing a new novel like giving orders, like crossing a desert, like riding a sine wave? Kenneth Oppel explains in this new Walking and Talking comic…