Newbery Award-Winning Rajani LaRocca shares personal insights into her writing, including when she started writing, when she came back to it, what she loves about writing in different genres, and how joy fuels her creative endeavors.

Listen in to discover:

• The original spark for her picture book SOME OF US
• The importance of sharing our citizenship stories.
• Surprising things she learned while writing this book.
• How kids respond to SOME OF US.
• Her inspiration for A VACCINE IS LIKE A MEMORY.
• How she balances her work as a physician with her work as an author.
• How being in community inspired her to write
• The struggle to write when times are tough
• The gift of giving your manuscripts time to sit
• If Rajani has a favorite among her books
• The different genres she has written
• What children say to her about her books

Books mentioned in this episode*:

• Some of Us by Rajani LaRocca and Huy Voun Lee
• A Vaccine is Like a Memory by Rajani LaRocca and Kathleen Marcottte
• Seven Golden Rings by Rajani LaRocca and Archana Sreenivasan
• Where Three Oceans Meet by Rajani LaRocca and Archana Sreenivasan
• Summer is for Cousins by Rajani LaRocca and Abhi Alwar
• Fall is for Beginnings by Rajani LaRocca and Abhi Alwar
• Your One and Only Heart by Rajani LaRocca and Lauren Paige Conrad
• Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
• Midsummer's Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca
• Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse by Leslie Bulion and Mike Lowery
• We Are the Light by Rajani LaRocca and Sayan Mukherjee
• Vibhi and the Voice by Rajani LaRocca and Cindy Derby
• Such Great Heights by Rajani LaRocca

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