Kidlit Happy Hour

Ep 6: Writing Truth: Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Trashing Drafts and Caping for the Giving Tree

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Highlights from this episode with acclaimed author Maggie Tokuda-Hall include:

  • Writing protagonists that are not role models
  • The magic of the 25k word count and refusing to string along dead writing and trashing drafts
  • Her thoughts on determining what are *her* stories to tell
  • Why telling truth to kids matters and untangling what "age appropriate" means
  • Mermaids, serial killers, and another perspective on The Giving Tree
  • An overshare that should empower us all to say NOPE!

    • Maggie Tokuda-Hall is the author of many books, including Love in the Library, and her debut young adult novel The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, which was named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Kirkus, School Library Journal and Book Page. Maggie is relentlessly bold in her writing and her truth-telling, and is an absolute force in the world of kid lit and beyond.

    IG and TikTok: @maggietokudahall

    Website: https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/

    Discussion around the Scholastic censorship controversy 

     

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