Ronny Khuri is an associate editor for Books for Youth at Booklist. He has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. His dæmon is a Siamese cat named Tiger Lily.
Trung Lê Nguyễn’s debut graphic novel, The Magic Fish, tells of Tiến and his mother, Helen, a Vietnamese immigrant who struggles with her English. As she comes to terms with losing her homeland and he searches for a way to overcome their language barrier and tell her that he’s gay, they are brought together by the […]
Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people. This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by BOOM! Studios. In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Ronny Khuri talks to authors Sabaa Tahir and Nicole Andelfinger, as well as artist Sonia Liao, three of the creators behind the […]
Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people. This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Capstone. In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Ronny Khuri talks to Susan Muaddi Darraj, the award-winning Palestinian American author of the Farah Rocks series, as well as Siman Nuurali, author […]
May 16 is National Love a Tree Day! And we’re celebrating with a list of children’s books that feature individual trees worthy of your love. We’ve got magical trees, sentient trees, talking trees, special-but-nonetheless-treelike-trees, and we even have some good ol’ nonfiction trees! Whether you love them or love to hate them, show our floral […]
While we’re celebrating #MiddleGradeMania all month long, let’s face it: being mad about middle grade tends to be a year-round affliction. The following is a list of podcasts that regularly cover middle-grade books and authors, ideal for busy grown-ups who need to feed their love of middle grade and want to keep up with the […]
Have you heard? There’s a new Spider-Man movie! If your eyes are rolling back into your head, I get it. This is the wall-crawler’s seventh big-screen feature of the twenty-first century (not counting various appearances with the Avengers), but trust me: if you love middle grade, you must see Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Forget the […]