Year: 2018

Children’s writer Ben Brooks is on a mission to redefine masculinity for young boys. “I want to help boys become better, happier men and open up a debate about what we think of as masculinity. I want to question the idea that it’s weak to be emotionally open, to demonstrate that it’s fine for men…

In 1804, Percy Shelley is being bullied at school until he flies into violent rages. A century later, a young Grayson Perry is wandering through graveyards, alone and in a dress. Neil Degrasse Tyson spent his youth staring through a telescope on the roof of his building. Jesse Eisenberg spent his in tears at the…

Jenna Gavigan, who made her Broadway debut in Gypsy in 2003, has used her own journey to Broadway as the inspiration for a novel for middle graders about a mouse who lives in the Shubert Theatre and dreams of performing on its grand stage. Titled Lulu the Broadway Mouse, the story follows Lulu as she…