Description

In this episode, I talk with Dan Gemeinhart, author of the acclaimed novel The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. We discuss his newest middle grade novel, The Midnight Children.

Dan Gemeinhart is a former elementary school teacher-librarian and lifelong book nerd.  He lives with his wife and three daughters in a small town in Washington  State. He's the author of some other books, too: The Honest Truth, Some Kind of Courage, Scar Island, and Good Dog. If he ever meets you, he'd love to talk about books with you.

Order copies of The Midnight Children on Bookshop.org or Amazon.

Transcription:

You can read the transcription on The Children's Book Review.

Resources:

You can visit Dan Gemeinhart at https://dangemeinhart.com.

How to Write Stunning Sentences by Nina Schuyler.

Discussion Topics:

• About The Midnight Children.
• The seed of the idea for the town of Slaughterville.
• The characters of The Midnight Children.
• Planting child-friendly nuggets of wisdom within a story.
• Writing, rewriting, and getting sentences and paragraphs just right.
• From teacher-librarian to an author and possibly back again someday.
• Being a reader and the big books of Dan's childhood.
• Dan Gemeinhart's hopes for readers of The Midnight Children.