StoryKind

How do you balance sharing personal childhood experiences and making them engaging for young readers

StoryKind

Show Notes

Kate DiCamillo and Kelly Yang discuss how they balance sharing personal, often painful, childhood experiences and parts of their life with fictionalizing them and making them engaging for young readers!

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