Stories are personal

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I love, you know I love doing school visits and being with kids who are actually reading the book, and it’s fun to just hear what their take on the book is, and how they might pull a little thread or a little theme from the book and really connect it with something that’s going on in their life. Something that I have no idea what’s going on, but that touches them in a nice way. So, and it sort of also reinforces to me that reading is such a personal experience, like you bring your own, your own reactions to it. And it can take you very different places depending on the person.

School visits remind Holm that every child approaches a book from her own experience, and that reading is intensely personal.

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Jennifer Holm

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Jennifer Holm has always loved reading. She recalls this: “One of our neighbors said that his clearest memory of me as a child was watching me rake the lawn one-handed while I read a book with the other!” Holm has co-authored a series of graphic novels featuring a mouse (Babymouse) and an amoeba (Squish) and created a feline version of James Bond (The Stink Files). She has also published several Newbery Honor-winning historical fiction novels for middle grade readers inspired by stories from her own family.

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Stories are personal

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