My attitude toward reaching out to authors and illustrators for interviews for this newsletter is, “If you don’t ask, they can’t say yes.” When I started doing this, it didn’t really occur to me that I have zero media credentials; I just kind of thought, well, what do I have to lose?
Oh Lauren, you are in for some truly outstanding children's literature. (I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to introduce her to you!) She's one of the greats.
Hooray for asking and for Boston Weatherford for saying "yes"! I also learned a new word: encomia. I am so grateful that this word exists and want to sing its praises for being a word that literally speaks to praise. How cool that she co-wrote with her child, too.
Oh my goodness, we've read and loved so many of these books, but I didn't know they were all the same author! (sadly, in the thousands of books I've read to my children, I can't keep them all straight!)
A great interview! I don't know how her books weren't on my radar but I'm making a library trip today to fix that!
Oh Lauren, you are in for some truly outstanding children's literature. (I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to introduce her to you!) She's one of the greats.
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters is one of my favorites. This was such a pleasure to read. Thank you for this interview!
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Great interview! I will definitely check out her books.
Yay!
Hooray for asking and for Boston Weatherford for saying "yes"! I also learned a new word: encomia. I am so grateful that this word exists and want to sing its praises for being a word that literally speaks to praise. How cool that she co-wrote with her child, too.
Yes. Double yes.
You went beyond the internet rabbit hole to the front door!!! 🤩 wow wow! What a treasure.
Thank you 😊
Beautiful interview!
Thank you!
Oh my goodness, we've read and loved so many of these books, but I didn't know they were all the same author! (sadly, in the thousands of books I've read to my children, I can't keep them all straight!)