How THE SHIP Set Sail: Behind the Scenes of THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW on The Yarn Podcast

While driving home from a book event a couple weeks back, I turned on the recorder and talked about how THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW came to be.
In the latest episode of The Yarn podcast, I share the original inspiration for the book, the strange timing of when it sold, and how Matthew Cordell joined on to illustrate the story.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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