We’re always honored and excited when special guests drop by to discuss their new picture books, novels, and poetry collections. It’s so much fun to “talk shop” with creatives about where they get their ideas and how they went about executing them.

Here are a few tidbits to wet your whistle:

SAMPLER PLATTER OF ALPHABET SOUP INTERVIEWS

Poetry Man Lee Bennett Hopkins

Author/Illustrator Melissa Sweet (Balloons Over Broadway)

Author Natalie S. Bober (Papa is a Poet)

Pie Poet Kate Lebo (Commonplace Book of Pie)

Poet Barbara Crooker (Book of Kells)

Author/Illustrator Melissa Iwai (Dumplings for Lili)

Author/Illustrator Ashley Wolff (How to Help a Pumpkin Grow)

Author/Illustrator Julie Paschkis (P. Zonka Lays an Egg)

Illustrator Jane Dyer on Amy K. Rosenthal’s Cookie books

Author/Illustrator Aram Kim (No Kimchi for Me)

Author Rosanne Tolin (More Than Marmalade: Michael Bond and the Story of Paddington Bear)

Author Emma Bland Smith (The Fabulous Fannie Farmer)

Illustrator R.W. Alley (Paddington at St. Paul’s)

Little House Actor Sidney Greenbush (“Carrie”)

Author/Illustrator Maira Kalman

*SEE THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW ARCHIVE (2007-2024) HERE

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