A Yarn Interview Nine Years in the Making: Sophie Blackall on FINDING WINNIE
Way back in 2016, Colby Sharp interviewed Sophie Blackall the day before she accepted her Caldecott Medal for Finding Winnie (written by Lindsay Mattick).
Today, after nine years, you can finally listen that conversation.
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In this episode, Sophie Blackall takes us behind the scenes of how this Caldecott Medal-winning book was made.
*SIDE NOTE* I read this book with my 3rd graders every year and more than once kids have burst into spontaneous applause when the story is done.
Filed under: The Yarn
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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