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The 'War Horse' author responds to the conflict with a child's-eye view of the devastation and the search for refuge

One of the world’s best-loved contemporary children’s writers will be talking about his love of storytelling and the importance of reading for children at...

By Michael M. Jones | Dec 18, 2020 For as long as she can remember, Van Hoang has been a writer, so the release of Girl Giant and the Monkey King (Roaring Brook) is the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition. “When I was a kid, I had this notebook,” she says. “I was obsessed about not having enough pages, so I’d write these stories and then go back and erase them, so I’d have more room to keep writing. We probably had plenty of notebooks, but I was afraid of running out...