Author Visit: Caroline Starr Rose

(57 minutes)

Note: This event was designed to be watched BEFORE reading May B.!

02:20 – Introducing Caroline Starr Rose!
03:45 – In your bio it said that you spent part of your childhood in Saudi Arabia—can you tell us a bit more about your travels as a child?
06:20 – Do you have a favorite memory of a favorite place that you could share?
07:00 – A Race Around the World: The True Story of Nellie Bly and Elisabeth Bisland. Can you tell us more about that true story and what made you think it would make a good picture book?

13:27 – What got you started or inspired you to write books?
14:42 – Did you always want to become a writer and if not what did you want to be before that?
16:05 – Do you include some of your own experiences in your books?
18:37 – How many books have you written?
19:25 – Meet Caroline’s dog, who briefly (& sweetly) interrupted our interview!
21:55 – How do you organize all of the ideas that keep popping in your head?
22:58 – Do you write more than one story at a time?
25:58 – How did you go about getting your first book published?
32:40 – We love your book Jasper and the Riddle of Riley’s Mine! What inspired you to write a book about the Klondike Gold Rush? (see links to NPR articles below!)

37:10 – Intro to May B.
38:29 – What inspired you to write this book in verse?
42:55 – Talking about the real-life reader (i.e. textbook) that May uses in the story (see link below)
44:55 – Do you have a favorite section of the book that you could read to us right now?
50:05 – How long did it take you to write May B?
51:35 – Are you working on a new book now, and what is it called?
56:00 – Caroline’s other books to check out!

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