Please welcome author illustrator Ana Velez to the show!!!💃💃💃💃
I was blown away by her retelling of The Three Little Pigs in her book The Three Little Guinea Pigs and The Andean Fox. From the artwork to the beautiful story and characters, kind, encouraging take on a much-loved classic.
I hope you enjoy this episode and Ana’s words of encouragement and inspiration. If you like stories, fairy tales, or unexpected kindness in picture books, this is the interview for you!
Highlights:
Sharing her first stories with her students.
The value of outside perspectives and connecting with the writing community.
How magical Middle Grade and YA are for all ages.
The joy in finding your community within the writing world and how that continues to change and grow over the years.
The drive to create that’s inside all of us.
Final words of advice: Keep learning and keep practicing.
Talking to Ana was so encouraging her inspirational kindness definitely shines through in her picture book, The Three Little Guinea Pigs and The Andean Fox. I hope you enjoyed this episode and find some inspiration to do some writing or illustrating of your own. And maybe even curl up with a magical middle grade book!
Links Mentioned🔗:
Ana’s Book Launch Fiesta on September 8th
The Three Little Guinea Pigs and The Andean Fox on Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes and Noble
PBSOAR24 on X, link.tree and Instagram
Previous interview with PBSOAR24 member Laura Bower
Book Recommendations📚:
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Thank you so much, Ana, for coming on the show! And thank you for listening! Stay tuned for next week’s interview with author Jessica Speer. While you’re waiting, make sure you’re all caught up on past episodes of the podcast like this one with Diana Kline about space debris and talking planets.
August 21, 2024
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