Familiar characters from three acclaimed middle grade novels will soon make return appearances, this time in the pages of picture books. Katherine Applegate revives her spunky aquatic mammal in ...

The May 1 event features children’s author Katherine Applegate, who wrote “Wishtree,” a youth bestseller about a nonbinary tree. Floyd county schools planned, but later scrapped, a mass ...

In Katherine Applegate’s “Willodeen,” an orphan girl in a land called Perchance learns that the fates of all of Earth’s creatures are intertwined.

On the basis of a three-sentence proposal, HarperCollins has signed recent Newbery Medal recipient Katherine Applegate for a middle-grade trilogy that will begin with Endling, likely in 2016.