Mess Stuff Up With Jon Scieszka

First Draft Episode #341: Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children’s
Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for
picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True
Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other
Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more.


Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio




Jacqueline Woodson, 2020
MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner,
Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former
National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and #1 New
York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at
the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many,
many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with
Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to
Fly. Hear her First Draft interview here.




Dr Seuss, author of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Oh, the
Places You’ll Go!, Green Eggs and Ham and more




Go, Dog, Go by P.J. Eastman




Franz Kafka, author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The
Castle, and more




Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and
more




Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Raven, The Masque of the Red
Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and more




Jon’s Science Verse




The Astronuts, Jon’s series with Steven Weinberg




Jonathan Baumbach, author of The Pavilion of Former Wives,
Dreams of Molly and many more




Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity’s Rainbow, Inherent Vice,
and The Crying of Lot 49




Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of
Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and more




Carlos Fuentes, author of Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz,
and more




Charles McGrath, former editor of The New York Times Book
Review and former deputy editor of The New Yorker. He is
currently a writer at large for The New York Times




Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel




Boy: Tales From Childhood and Going Solo are autobiographical
books written by Roald Dahl




Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita




Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author
and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling
picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to
Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us
to talk about his newest picture book, There’s a Ghost In
This House. Listen to his First Draft interviews here and
here.




Battle Bunny by Mac Barnett and Jon Scieszka




Matt de la Peña, author of seven critically acclaimed young
adult novels including Mexican Whiteboy and Newbery
Medal–winning author of Last Stop on Market Street talks
about his newest collaboration with illustrator Christian
Robinson, Milo Imagines the World. Listen to his First Draft
interview here.




Adam Rubin, author of Dragons Love Tacos, Those Darn
Squirrels, Robo-Sauce and more with Daniel Salmieri




The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (TV show)




Jon’s autobiography, Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True
Stories of Growing Up Scieszka




Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood, a memoir by
Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet




Monty Python




Saturday Night Live




Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times
bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back
series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The
Rock From the Sky. Listen to his First Draft episodes here
and here.




The Far Side cartoon by Gary Paulsen




Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson




Guys Read




Kate DiCamillo, is one of six people to win two Newbery
Medals, for her novels The Tale of Despereaux and Flora &
Ulysses, and author of Newbery Honor book Because of
Winn-Dixie, National Book Award finalist The Tiger Rising, as
well as New York Times bestselling novels The Miraculous
Journey of Edward Tulane, The Magician’s Elephant, the Mercy
Watson series, and more. DiCamillo was the U.S. National
Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2014 and 2015.
Her most recent novel, Beverly, Right Here completes the
trilogy of Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana’s Way Home.




Dog Man by Dave Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants




Shannon Hale, author of Princess Academy, The Goose Girl,
Austenland and more




Adele Griffin, two-time National Book Award honoree and
author of almost thirty books for Young Adult and middle
grade readers, including The Unfinished Life of Addison
Stone, The Becket List, and Sons of Liberty and Where I want
to Be. Hear her First Draft interview here.




Lisa Brown, illustrator of The Phantom Twin, The Airport Book
and more




Katherine Paterson, author of The Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob
Have I Loved, and more




Dave Shannon, author and illustrator of No, David!




Loren Long, author and illustrator of Otis, Little Tree, and
many more




The Treehouse books (The 13-Story Treehouse all the way to
The 143-Story Treehouse) by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton




The Rijksmuseum, the museum that has Rembrandts available
online




Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of
critically acclaimed books, including National Book Award
finalist Ghost, Newberry and Printz-honored Long Way Down,
Coretta Scott King Honoree As Brave as You, and his latest,
middle grade Look Both Ways, which was just named to the
National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature.
Listen to his First Draft interviews here and here.




Walter Dean Myers, author of Monster, The Glory Field,
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary




Gene Luen Yang, former National Ambassador for Young People’s
Literature and author and illustrator of American Born
Chinese




The Rabbit hOle’s Explor-A-Storium




The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense
by Jon Scieszka and Julia Rothman


 


Thanks for Listening!




 


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