By popular demand, Stacey and I welcome Katherine Applegate to the Author Fan Face-Off studio for a much-anticipated One and Only Ivan Challenge!

Today we welcome Sara Pennypacker to the Author Fan Face-off studio for a challenge based on her beloved novel of a boy and a fox, Pax.

Here’s the latest, an El Deafo challenge with the amazing and always funny Cece Bell!

And here’s the latest Author Fan Face-off, this time featuring Stuart Gibbs and the first book of his bestselling Spy School series!

Here’s episode #3 of Author Fan Face-off, with Stacy McAnulty and her math-filled novel The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl!

Here’s episode 2 of Author Fan Face-off, with guest author Varian Johnson going up against a true superfan of his novel The Great Greene Heist!

Check out a new video series I’m trying out – Author Fan Face-off! In each episode, one famous author and one student/fan go head to head on 10 trivia questions from one of the author’s best loved books. My co-host is super-librarian Stacey Rattner. Our first guest author is Chris Grabenstein and the featured book is best-selling Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library.

Here’s something I never expected to see – me, as a cartoon by the comics legend Stan Mack, on the cover of School Library Journal! SLJ is generously offering free online access to the magazine during this time – check it out here.

The Horn Book is doing a very cool and generous thing during this crisis – allowing anyone to read the full magazine online for free. And it just so happens that I have a comic in the new May/June edition! It’s a special “Breaking the Rules” edition, and they invited a bunch of writers to riff on a time they broke the rules. Check out my comic and all the other great pieces here – just click on the “Access Digitized Edition” link to get the whole magazine.

My very first book, even before I started writing nonfiction, was a graphic novel called The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey. I did three Harvey books – and still hope to do more some day. Meanwhile, here’s a quick video in which I answer some reader questions about the books and show how I draw the Harvey character. The special guest is my son – stuck at home right now, like everyone…