Shannon Hale has made a career showing kids — girls especially — how to find their inner powers. Her books typically star feisty female characters, and that has at times caused trouble when ...

Like most kids growing up in the 1970s and ‘80s, Shannon Hale was a big fan of Wonder Woman — specifically, the TV version played by Lynda Carter.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with author Shannon Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham about their new graphic novel for kids, Best Friends.

My two kids are younger than Hale’s, and I confessed that I really hated Captain Underpants, a series by Dav Pilkey that is so scatologically resplendent that I had to ban it before bedtime for ...

Author Shannon Hale and artist LeUyen Pham have teamed up for "Real Friends," a story about tough times in grade school, where kids have to learn to navigate friendships, safe spaces and bullies ...

Shannon Hale, a home-grown Utah mother of four who writes children's books, is leading a collective of writers condemning the banning and suppression of books for kids.

Author Shannon Hale is marking 20 years of publishing, and becoming something like Utah's version of Judy Blume — in her material, her appeal to different demographics, and her talent for ...

SHANNON HALE: Having my own elementary-age kids made me wish for a book like this one to share with them, and that inspired me to write it down. But I didn’t use any of their personal stories in ...

But neither Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s collaboration Real Friends nor their new follow-up Best Friends, both from publisher First Second, had any such problem.

Acclaimed Utah author Shannon Hale blogs. A lot. And her blogs often aren't about her upcoming tour dates or how hard it was to write that day or what she's wearing. Hale gamely sticks out her tongue ...

In time for back-to-school, Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham tackle the issue of friendship for middle school students in their latest graphic novel, “Best Friends ...

Shannon Hale has made a career showing kids - girls especially - how to find their inner powers. Her books typically star feisty female characters, and that has at times caused trouble when she ...