Kidlit Happy Hour

Ep 11: Finding Ways into Story: Yuyi Morales on Getting Lost and Feeling Your Way Home

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Highlights from this episode with Yuyi Morales include:

  • The impact of environment on storytelling
  • Reframing what it means to write and work
  • Toggling between anguish and joy in the writing process
  • Community as a necessary guide to story
  • How the rampant dehumanization during a certain presidential candidacy impacted her decision to write her own immigration story... and invite others to tell their own
  • Power plants and finding the story within

    • Yuyi Morales is the NYT bestselling, award-winning author and illustrator of beloved children's books, including Dreamers, Bright Star, Nino Wrestles the World, and so many more. She weaves artistic mediums with tenderness and heart, using everything from yarn to photography to ink drawings to animate her stories. Yuyi's groundbreaking work has received awards that include: the Jane Addams Book Award, the Christopher Award, and six prestigious Pura Belpre Medals. Yuyi was also the first Latina artist to ever receive the illustrious Caldecott honor in 2015 for Viva Frida. 

    IG: @yuyimorales

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