Please welcome author Emily Dangremond to the show today! Talking with her is always a joy and I could seriously talk to her for hours on end about trees, consciousness, and more.
I hope you enjoy hearing what she has to say and it gives your day a boost. You are here. You are a writer. You don’t need to wait for it to be in your job title. 💜
Highlights:
Increasing plant literacy.🌱🌲🌼
The difference between knowing flowers versus the trees in your neighborhood.
Dutchman’s Breeches–the flower, and other fun Spring plants!
Find your plant ephemerals.
Graphic novels about trees?📕🌳
The more we learn the more we realize we don’t know.📖
You aren’t going to see animals when you go outside–they’re going to be hiding. You’re going to see leaves and trees.🌱🌲
Mangrove forests.
Taking a break and coming back to your writing afterward.
Accountability vibes.
Writing to process feelings.
What makes a writer–when do you own the identity?
You can be a something AND a something else. We all have more than one identity.
Writing out the anxiety to move on after periods of our life.
“Plants are people too.”
Emily Dangremond
Links Mentioned🔗:
Emily on Instagram and Twitter
Kid’s Questions Answered Podcast
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
Picture Book Peeps on Substack and Instagram
The 12×12 Picture Book Challenge
Book Recommendations📚:
Meet the Trees by Emily Dangremond, illustrated by Summer Morrison on Bookshop, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.
Thank you Emily, and thank you, listener! Stay tuned for next week’s episode with author Leslie Eva Tayloe.💃💃💃💃🎧 And in the meantime, catch up on classic episodes like this one with author Rebecca Gardyn Levington and author-illustrator Parker Milgram.
