• Sandra Boynton: Author/Illustrator
• Kate DiCamillo: Author
• Meg Cabot: Author
• Jan Brett: Author/Illustrator
• Candice Ransom: Author
• Tomie DePaola:Author/Illustrator
• Nikki Grimes: Poet
• Katherine Paterson: Author
• Brian Selznick:Author/Illustrator

Audio Interviews with Authors, Illustrators and Experts

Susan Raab has recorded interviews with authors, artists, educators, publishers and thought leaders in youth and family literature since 2004. Her interviews have been heard on more than 500 public radio stations, on youth radio, and via educational broadcast networks.

• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Author/Educator and Sociologist
  
• Michelle Markel, Author
  
• Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Author & Civil Rights Activist
  
• Carroll Purcell, Author
  

​Bringing Your Story to Market

• Melissa Sweet, Author/Illustrator
  
• Jonathan Todres, Author, Human Rights Expert
  
• Pamela Turner, Author
  
• Susan Verde, Author

• Bridgette Alexander, Author & Art Historian
  
• Laura Gehl, Author/Illustrator
  
• Keith Hemstreet, Author
  
• Deborah Hopkinson, Author
  
• Debbie Levy, Author

• Heidi Cortner Boisen
• Margaret Quinlan: Publisher
• Patsy Aldana: Publisher
• Judy Galbraith: Publisher
• EL Konigsburg: Author
• Jeffrey Garrett: Children’s Literature Expert
• MT Anderson:Author
• Stephanie Bange: American Library Association
• Peter Sis: Author/Illustrator
• Robie Harris: Author
  

• Laurie Halse Andersen, Author, Speak, Fever 1793 (Margaret A. Edwards Award, National Book Award Finalist)
  
• Avi: Author, Crispin (Newbery Medal)
  
• Lori Benton: General Manager/Publisher of its fiction imprints, Capstone
  
• Barbara Brathova: Main Curator, Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava
  
• Roberta Chinni: Director, Bologna Children’s Bookfair; 2009, 2008
  
• Gennifer Choldenko: Author Al Capone Does My Shirts (Newbury Honor)
  
• Jean-Luc Dubois: Managing Director, Editions Caramel
  
• Katie Davis: Author/Illustrator, Who Hops? Mabel the Tooth Fairy, The Curse of Addy McMahon
  
• Nancy Devard: Illustrator, The Secret Olivia Told Me (Coretta Scott King Honor)
  
• Kathleen Duey: Author, The Unicorn’s Secret + bestselling series books
  
• Denise Fleming: Author/Illlustrator, In the Small, Small Pond (Caldecott Honor)
  
• Marla Frazee: Illustrator, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Horn Book Honor)
  
• Roy Freeman: Author/Illustrator, including discussion of Don Freeman’s classic, Corduroy
  
• Patricia Fry: Pop-up Book Artist, The Nutcracker
  
• Zoreh Ghaeni: Jury President 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award, Historian Children’s Literature Iran
  
• Nina Hess: Author/Senior Editor Mirrorstone Books
  
• Roberto Innocenti: Illustrator, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Hans Christian Andersen Award winner
  
• Susan Jeffers: Illustrator, Three Jovial Huntsmen (Caldecott Honor)
  
• Norton Juster: Author, The Phantom Tollbooth, Hello, Goodbye Window (Caldecott Medal)
  
• Stephen Kellogg: Author/Illustrator, Pinkerton series, Regina Medal
  
• E.L. Konigsburg: Author, 2x Newbery Medal winner, From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil
  
• Christine L’Heureux: Author & Publisher, Caillou series
  
• Wendy Lichtman: Author, Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
  
• Dr. Jolita Liškeviciene: The Vilneus Academy of Fine Arts, the Institute of Art History in Lithuania, and the Coordinator for the Lithuanian Illustrators Exhibition at the 2011 Bologna Book Fair
  
• Lois Lowry: The Giver, Number the Stars, Crow Call (two Newbery Awards, Margaret A. Edwards Award)
  
• Leonard Marcus: Author/Historian, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
  
• Taine Mundondo: Executive Director, African Publishing Network
  
• Barry Moser: Artist, In the Beginning (Newbery Honor), National Book Award
  
• Ann-Janine Murtagh: Publisher, HarperCollins UK
  
• George Nicholson: Literary Agent
  
• Liz Page: Executive Director, International Board on Books for Young People
  
• Kimberly Pauley: Author, Sucks to Be Me
  
• Nancy Pearl: Author, NPR commentator, Book Lust
  
• Susan Beth Pfeffer: Bestselling Author, Life As We New It
  
• Carla Poesio: Consultant to Bologna Children’s Bookfair; 2011 interview, 2010 interview and 2008 interviews
  
• Maria Salvadore: Children’s Literature Educator, Author
  
• R.A. Salvatore & Geno Salvatore: Author, 18 NYT Bestsellers/Co-Author, The Stowaway
  
• Gyozo Sarkany: President, Society of Hungarian Illustrators
  
• Jon Scieszka, U.S. Children’s Literary Ambassador & Bestselling Author, The Stinky Cheese Man, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
  
• Sameer Shariff: Founder & CEO, iPublish Central
  
• Bob Shea: Author/Illustrator, Big Plans
  
• Umesh Shukla: Chief Operating Officer, Auryn Inc.
  
• Beniamino Sidoti: Consultant Children’s Division, De Agostini Editoire
  
• David J. Smith, Author, If the World Were a Village (international bestseller) and If America Were a Village
  
• Lane Smith: Author/Illustrator, The Stinky Cheese Man (Caldecott Honor)
  
• Claudia Soeffner: English Language Specialist, International Youth Library
  
• Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly: Author, Maus (Pulitzer Prize), Jack and the Box (TOON)
  
• Mark Teague: Author/Illustrator, Dear Mrs. LaRue, How Do Dinosaurs series
  
• Erik Titusson: Director, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
  
• Tiffany Trent: Author, Hallowmere series
  
• Monica Weiss: Head of Argentinean Illustrators Exhibition
  
• Miroslava Vallova: Head of the International Department, Center for Information on Literature, Slovakia
  
• Ashley Andersen Zantop: Publisher, Trudy Corporation/Soundprints
  
• Jim Zubkovich, Publisher/Manga Author, Manga