Bianca with Julie Fogliano, Molly Idle, and Juana Martinez-Neal on I Don't Care

In this episode, it's a trifecta of guests! Two are Caldecott
Honor Book winners Molly Idol and Juana Martinez-Neal, and the
third is Newyork Times bestselling author Julie Fogliano. They're
here to talk about their picture book collaboration I Don't Care,
a beautiful, lyrical story of friendship that has received
multiple-starred reviews.


Julie Fogliano is the New York Times bestselling author of, among
other titles, And Then It’s Spring, and If You Want to See a
Whale, and Just in Case You Want to Fly,  illustrated by
Christian Robinson. Recipient of the 2013 Ezra Jack  Keats
award and two Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors, her books have been
translated into more than ten languages. Julie lives in the
Hudson  Valley with her husband and three children.

Molly Idle's work as an author-illustrator includes the Caldecott
Honor Book Flora and the Flamingo, Flora and the Penguin, Flora
and the Peacocks, Flora and the Chicks, Flora and the Ostrich,
and Tea Rex, Camp Rex, Sea Rex, and Santa Rex, among other books,
including Pearl,  an original fable about a mermaid who
learns the power of one small act. She lives with her family in
Arizona.

Juana Martinez-Neal is the author and illustrator of the
Caldecott Honor-winning book Alma and How She Got Her Name. She
also illustrated La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya,
for which she won a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, Babymoon by
Hayley Barrett, Swashby and the Sea by Beth Ferry, and Fry Bread:
A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, which won
a Robert F. Sibert Medal. Juana  Martinez-Neal lives in
Connecticut with her family. 


Transcription:


You can read the transcription on The Children's Book Review
here.


Order copies:


I Don't Care on Bookshop.org and Amazon.


Resources:


Visit Jule Fogliano at juliefogliano.com.


Visit Molly Idle at idleillustration.com.


Visit Juana Martinez-Neal  at juanamartinezneal.com.


Discussion Topics:


Things that motivate Julie Fogliano to write for children

The intersectionality of working and motherhood

Inspirations and the writing and editing process for I Don't
Care

When two illustrators collaborate on one picture book

The illustration process behind I Don't Care

Author and Illustrator highlights from I Don't Care

Thoughts on friendship, individuality, and togetherness