The Graphic Campus Podcast
The Graphic Campus Podcast explores the writing process from a thought to its publication with authors and educators who have shared their written voices to the world.
The Graphic Campus Podcast
8. Final Episode with Newberry Award Winner, Matt de la Peña!
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Season 1
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Episode 8
Graphic Campus's Theresa and Gene Yang with Rosa Lee, get deep with Matt de la Peña. We get to listen in on his origin story, his basketball background and how the new book he wrote and illustrated by Christian Robinson, Milo Imagines the World, came to be. We discuss how reading a picture book contains multiple, complex layers. Milo Imagines the World offers themes of forced separation and stereotypes. Matt de la Peña also gives valuable advice to his younger self and to young writers!