Author Alan Gratz talks about how young people can learn about the lives and experiences of refugees and immigrants. Visit our AdLit.org YouTube site to watch more of our interview with Alan.
To get more kids reading and kids reading more, Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang offers his Reading Without Walls Challenge, which helps kids learn more about diverse people and ideas outside their personal experiences.
From the time he could read and started loving books, Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang has kept an “awesome shelf” of books. One book on that shelf about graphic novels convinced him that the medium of comics/graphic novels could carry any story he wanted to tell.
Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang did pull heavily from his own experiences growing up between Chinese and American cultures when writing his graphic novel American Born Chinese.
Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang believes that reading about someone who seems different , even on the surface, highlights our common humanity … one of the most powerful aspects of literature.
Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang remembers vividly characters from Dr. Suess as well as from comic books that impacted him as a child and still as an adult.
As a computer scientist, Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang says the way he can explain the specialness of a printed book is that it can have both sequential access and random access … meaning, the reader can read the story in order or can jump around.
