More than 25 years later, the pen of another name meets a new generation of wordsmiths. By Jon Agee Jon Agee is the author, most recently, of the picture book “My Dad Is a Tree.” There’s a moment in ...

Andrew Clements, a schoolteacher turned children's author whose first novel, "Frindle" - about a mischievous fifth-grader who coins a new word for "pen" - was an unlikely bestseller about a kid's ...

Andrew Clements, a schoolteacher turned children’s author whose first novel, “Frindle” — about a mischievous fifth-grader who coins a new word for “pen” — was an unlikely bestseller about a kid’s ...