The Graphic Campus Podcast

8. Final Episode with Newberry Award Winner, Matt de la Peña!

May 07, 2021 Graphic Campus Season 1 Episode 8
The Graphic Campus Podcast
8. Final Episode with Newberry Award Winner, Matt de la Peña!
Show Notes

Graphic Campus's Theresa and Gene Yang with Rosa Lee, get deep with Matt de la Peña. We get to listen in on his origin story, his basketball background and how the new book he wrote and illustrated by Christian Robinson, Milo Imagines the World, came to be.  We discuss how reading a picture book contains multiple, complex layers. Milo Imagines the World offers themes of forced separation and stereotypes. Matt de la Peña also gives valuable advice to his younger self and to young writers!