{"id":1199,"date":"2020-07-06T20:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2021-07-24T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:24:29","slug":"lapl-childrens-book-club-chats-with-2020-coretta-scott-king-author-award-winner-jerry-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/2020\/07\/06\/lapl-childrens-book-club-chats-with-2020-coretta-scott-king-author-award-winner-jerry-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPL Children\u2019s Book Club Chats with 2020 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner Jerry Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201c…I started writing my own comics because, I guess, I wanted to see characters who looked like me. Then slowly but surely, I realized that in order to draw these stories, I had to write them myself.\u201d – Jerry Craft<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Los Angeles Public Library – Studio City Branch Children\u2019s Book Club was honored to interview Coretta Scott King and Newberry Award winning author and illustrator Jerry Craft for its latest Children Chatting with Authors<\/em> podcast episode.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Lauren Kratz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here is the link<\/a> to enjoy hearing Craft talk about New Kid<\/em>, reflect on his favorite authors for children and young adults, and offer some valuable advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lauren Kratz<\/strong> is a member of the CSK Technology Committee, the CSK Awards Book Donation Grant Standing Committee, and a children\u2019s librarian at Los Angeles Public Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c…I started writing my own comics because, I guess, I wanted to see characters who looked like me. Then slowly but surely, I realized that in order to draw these stories, I had to write them myself.\u201d – Jerry Craft The Los Angeles Public Library – Studio City Branch Children\u2019s Book Club was honored to … Continue reading LAPL Children\u2019s Book Club Chats with 2020 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner Jerry Craft<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15,21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-award","category-csk-award-winners","category-illustrator-award","category-programming-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}