Katey Howes is a highly successful, multiple-award winning picture book author, doing things her way. She writes books in meticulous rhyme. She writes stories with clear messages. In our illuminating interview, we talk not only about her new multi-starred book, Woven of the World (Chronicle, 2023), which sold out in two months, but also about her life story as a 'science nerd' who originally wanted to publish a single children's book and call it a day, and her advice for aspiring authors.

Mel Rosenberg is a professor emeritus of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is co-founder of Ourboox, a web platform with some 240,000 ebooks that allows anyone to create and share flipbooks comprising text, pictures and videos.

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