Lin Stepp
Parkway Publishers
240 pages
$14.95
“Well, I’ve finally come across someone that believes in all the things that I do… love, family, faith, intrigue, mystery, loyalty, romance, and a great love for our beloved Smoky Mountains.”
Dolly Parton
John Carter Cash is Grammy-winning music producer. He has worked on albums by virtually everyone in the Nashville pantheon—stars like Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, and John Prine—but he’s still best known as the only child of Johnny Cash and June Carter. In 2007, Cash published a biography of his mother, Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash, and earlier this year he brought out a children’s book inspired by her, as well. He talks with Chapter 16 about his mother, his wife, his children—and his next book.
Written by Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, and Archie Manning; Illustrated by Jim Madsen
Scholastic Books
40 pages
$16.99
In Family Huddle, NFL stars Peyton and Eli Manning, along with their father, Archie, tell the story of family trip they all took back when the boys were children. In the largest single-name donation in the history of the ClassroomsCare Program, the Mannings—along with Scholastic Book Clubs and its partners, Reach Out & Read and Save the Children—will donate one million books to children in need.
“Alongside the Brothers Grimm as sibling authors of children’s books, you can add the Brothers Manning.”
Indianapolis Star
Nashville nanny Shellie Braeuner didn’t learn about the first Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories Children’s Book Contest until the final day to enter. Undaunted, she came up with a charming rhyme about bathing the family dog and entered the contest online, barely in time to pick up the older children from school. Despite a typo in the title, The Great Dog Wash beat out a thousand other entries to win the grand prize—five thousand dollars and the chance at a hardcover publishing contract.
Today’s young readers, coming of age in a post-9/11 world, should be deeply familiar with a central question of our times: what does it mean to be patriotic, to love—and protect, or protest—one’s country? It’s one question, among others, that they’ll find tenderly explored in Silas House‘s first young-adult novel, Eli the Good.
Nashville sculptor William Edmondson believed he worked at God’s command. In a collection of poems for young readers, Elizabeth Spires gives his creations voices of their own.
