Episode 18 features Newbery winner Katherine Applegate, author of The One and Only Ivan, Crenshaw and most recently, Wishtree. Our Porchlight conversation with Katherine Applegate explores developing a unique point of view character, along with the optimism of middle grade readers.

Katherine also reflects on the writing process and her journey – including the time she considered giving up on the Ivan manuscript and the dynamics of the author/agent relationship.

Includes announcement of Katherine’s Write, Submit, Support scholarship in honor of poet Mary Carolyn Davies, who wrote the epigraph that opens Wishtree.