JVNLA Blog

We hope you've been enjoying the summer! If you're a regular visitor to our JVNLA sites, you may have noticed that our Tumblr blog has recently taken over our former blog space on our website. Check it out here in all its lovely glory!
As our Tumblr blog incorporates all the latest news, updates, and buzz about our books, we have decided to no longer maintain this iteration of our blog. Thanks so much for reading--but now please follow us on Tumblr instead!...

Celebrated author Nancy Willard writes adult poetry and fiction as well as kids' books and is a National Book Award finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and Newbery Medal recipient. Many of her backlist adult books were republished...

March brought the release of two fascinating World War-era historical novels that have received stellar praise: The Empire of the Senses by Alexis Landau, a novel about passion and family in volatile Berlin, and Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner, chronicling...

Last month, we decided to celebrate reading and JVNLA books with inspiration taken from Ella Frances Sanders's New York Times Travel section bestseller Lost in Translation (Ten Speed Press, September 2014).
The book is a compilation of breathtaking illustrations of words that can't be translated into English. One of our--and other book lovers'--favorite words is tsundoku,the Japanese word for “leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together...