Children & Young Adult

Forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2023

The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18. Books are set in eras up to the early 1970s. ...Read Article

Wordsmith Revisited: The Works of George Alfred Henty

WRITTEN BY JON G. BRADLEY & SAM ALLISON George Alfred Henty died in November 1902 just several weeks shy of his seventieth birthday. Considered ...Read Article

Launch: Margaret McNellis’s The Red Fletch

INTERVIEW BY TRACEY WARR You thought you knew the legend of Robin Hood, but think again. Margaret McNellis’s new novel, The Red ...Read Article

Forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2022

The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18. Books are set in eras up to the early 1970s. ...Read Article

Forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2021

The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18. Books are from eras up to the 1970s. Details are ...Read Article

A Mirror to the World: Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults

WRITTEN BY LINDA SEVER Children’s fiction has a huge responsibility and an equally big opportunity to produce inclusive books which accurately reflect ...Read Article

Saving Washington: An Interview with Chris Formant

Somewhere deep beneath the bustling streets of Brooklyn, New York lie the remains of perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers ...Read Article

New Voices: Colleen Adair Fliedner, Matt Gianni, Janet Hancock & Kip Wilson

Kip Wilson has blended her interest in poetry with her skills as an author to create her Young Adult fiction novel White Rose (...Read Article

Young Adult War Fiction: Fixture or Trend?

A short perusal of Historical Novels Review’s Children’s & Young Adult book reviews over the past year reveals an interesting statistic: ...Read Article

Being “On the Ground”: An Interview with Felicity Pulman, Author of the Janna Chronicles

WRITTEN BY ELISABETH STORRS Australian historical novelists face challenges when writing about places thousands of miles away and centuries in the past. Felicity ...Read Article