Katherine Applegate is the author of many books for young readers, including the 2013 Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan, Crenshaw, Home of the Brave, Wishtree, the Roscoe Riley Rules series, Endling, and with her husband, Michael Grant, the Animorphs series. In this interview, Applegate talks about life-changing books for reluctant readers (including kids with dyslexia), writing “first-person gorilla”, tackling tough topics, how books can change communities, and much more.
Katherine Paterson is the Newbery Medal-winning author of Jacob Have I Loved and Bridge to Terabithia. In these two exclusive video interviews with Reading Rockets, Katherine Paterson talks about her childhood, raising a family, the challenges and joy of writing historical fiction, the importance of families reading aloud together, and much more. In 2010, Katherine Paterson was named the second National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress and the Children’s Book Council. Paterson was honored again in 2013 with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her lasting contribution to children’s literature.
