The Acquisition of Possibility With Matt de la Peña

First Draft Episode #288: Matt de la Peña

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.


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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros




Maya Angelou, poet and author of memoir I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings




Ball Don’t Lie (movie)




Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of
National Book Award and Printz-winning The Poet X, as well as
With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land. Listen to her
First Draft interview here.




A.S. King, author of Printz-winning novels Dig and Please
Ignore Vera Dietz and many more




Steven Malk, Matt’s literary agent at the Writer’s House
literary agency




The Color Purple by Alice Walker




Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston




Kadir Nelson, artist and illustrator of A Nation’s Hope: The
Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis and winner of the Coretta
Scott King award for writing and illustrating Heart and Soul:
The Story of America and African-Americans




Christian Robinson also wrote and illustrated New York Times
bestselling picture books you matter, another, and more




Stephen Malk also represents Amanda Gorman, National Youth
Poet Laureate and youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history,
and author of the forthcoming Change Sings: A Children’s
Anthem




Sales of Milo Imagines the World will benefit The unPrison
Project's UP with Books program, which purchases, ships, and
donates new children’s books to interested prisons, then
facilitates a reading day to help incarcerated mothers stay
connected and involved with their children on visiting day.
The child then takes the book home.




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Oliver Jeffers, visual
artist, illustrator of The Day the Crayons Quit, and author
and illustrator of How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto,
and Here We Are talks about his newest picture book, What
We’ll Build.




Carson Ellis, author and
illustrator of bestselling picture books Home and Caldecott
Honor book Du Iz Tak?, talks about her newest picture book,
In the Half Room.




Jon Klassen, Caldecott
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and
illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, as well as the
illustrator of Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn by Mac
Barnett; The Dark by Lemony Snicket; House Held Up by Trees
by Ted Kooser; Cats' Night Out by Caroline Stutson; and many
more.




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