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With Renowned Children's Book Authors and Illustrators
Watch Reading Rockets' exclusive video interviews with top children's book authors and illustrators. You'll discover if Chris Van Allsburg is really as spooky as his books, where Jon Scieszka gets his wacky ideas, and why Patricia Polacco's warm family tales seem so real. Browse the list of more than 70 interviews below.
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Zen Shorts
For his 2006 Caldecott Honor book, Zen Shorts, Muth repainted one page seven times before it had the exact feel that he wanted. "I don't even know what it was," he says, "but I knew when the page was right." Watch interview >
Becoming Billie Holiday
Caldecott-winning poet and storyteller Carole Boston Weatherford "mines the past for family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles." She vividly captures the lives of African American heroes like Harriet Tubman and Jesse Owens. Watch interview >
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek
"As I began to write stories, I always found myself drawn to history, and I found myself drawn to the stories that I hadn't found when I was a young reader. And those are the stories that I've come to write about." Watch interview >
