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National Book Award-winning author Sherman Alexie plans to write this debut picture book, Thunder Boy Jr. Artist Yuyi Morales created the illustrations for this project.
Publisher Megan Tingley negotiated this deal with literary agents Nancy Stauffer and Charlotte Sheedy. Editor in chief Alvina Ling and associate editor Bethany Strout worked on editing the manuscript together. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will release this book on May 03, 2016.
Here’s more from the press release: “Thunder Boy Jr. tells the story of a little boy who is named after his dad. But Thunder Boy Jr. doesn’t want to share a name; he wants a name that is all his own, and he goes through many possibilities—Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth? Touch the Clouds? Old Toys Are Awesome? Just when all hope is lost, his dad helps him find the perfect name, one that celebrates the love between father and son.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon and The MacDowell Colony have revealed a new fellowship, funded by an anonymous donor, that will be given in honor of literary agent Charlotte Sheedy.
The $200,000 endowment will fund an annual residency of up to two months at The MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Inspired by Sheedy’s push to discover diverse voices, The Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship will be given to writers that write about people from across racial and cultural boundaries.
\"The MacDowell Colony commits itself, every day, to supporting, fostering, and nurturing diverse artists in their daily struggle to make art,” Chabon said at a ceremony where he revealed the new award. “That commitment is written into the Mission Statement. It’s been coded into MacDowell’s DNA from the day in 1954 that James Baldwin walked into Baetz Studio and got down to work.”
