Cecil Castellucci

The Year of the Beasts (Roaring Brook)

Award-winning young adult author Cecil Castellucci launches her new book The Year of the Beasts, featuring a tale of love and jealosy told in alternating chapters of prose and comics (drawn by Nate Powell!).

"Castellucci and Powell make a powerful team.... What emerges is a map that leads into the maze of grief, and an elegant evocation of the monster crouched at its center." --Booklist "Sophisticated readers will eat this . . . right up." --Kirkus Cecil Castellucci is the two-time MacDowell Colony fellow and award-winning author of five books for young adults including Boy Proof (Candlewick, 2005), The Plain Janes (Minx/DC Comics, 2007), and Beige (Candlewick, 2007). This year she also accepted a position as YA and children’s books editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, a newly launched online magazine. Cecil Castellucci's books have been on the American Library Association's (ALA's) BBYA, Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Great Graphic Novels for Teens lists, as well as the NYPL Books for the Teen Age and the Amelia Bloomer list. Born in New York City, Cecil lives in Los Angeles. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MAY 22, 2012.