The Neverfear (Knopf Books for Young Readers, September 1, 2026), returns readers to “the last surviving magical place.” This is the extraordinary realm Katherine Rundell introduced in the award-winning title Impossible Creatures (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2024) and expanded upon in The Poisoned King (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2025).

Tiffany D. Jackson is a New York Times–bestselling author and a 2026 Edgar Award recipient for Blood in the Water, as well as several young adult novels and two picture books. A 2025 Margaret A. Edwards Award recipient, Tiffany is also a Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner and an NAACP Image Award nominee. She received her Bachelor of Arts [...]

Sleepless is a little different from your most recent novels in that there’s a light science fiction touch. How did you decide that you wanted to go in a slightly fantastical direction to tell this story? For me, Sleepless began with the pretty mundane reflection that there’s never enough time to do everything you want to do. And when I started to explore that idea, the most [...]