Kidlit Love: Conversations with Picture Book and Middle Grade Authors
Oct 13, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
Happy Tuesday! Today, I’m talking with Kate DiCamillo to celebrate the second season of her podcast with Kelly Yang called StoryKind. It’s a joyful conversation you won’t want to miss! Keep…
Kate DiCamilloGuest
Stephanie AffinitoHost
Very, which is where the whole thing, you know, as somebody who's listened, that's where everything started for us was
And Kelly was sitting right next to me and her head was, Just whipped around in utter, unfeigned disbelief when I said that I don't outline.
And then Kelly said, wouldn't it be great if we had these conversations on a podcast? And, and it's like, wow.
Like, I mean, Kelly did all the legwork and still does all the legwork, you know, edits and, and, um, and I just like, I think, wow, do I need one more thing to do? But, um, it's also been so every time we do an episode, I'm so grateful that we talked, you know, and there's so much that, you know, because, uh, Kelly sorts through the reader questions and we get, you know, pretty powerful questions.
One of the ones that really like kind of undid me was, you know, what do you do when people are mean? And I think it's nice to have a place to talk about that kind of stuff, so.
Yeah, you have a really wonderful range of questions that the two of you tackle from the one that you just mentioned.
But things like what's your biggest fear in writing? How do you get started? What if it's not? Perfect.
All sorts of questions that writers, I'd say young and older, have, whether you're a kid who's learning to write or you're an adult who's trying to get to that dream.
Diverse, I should say, in terms of the writing process versus reading versus the inner characteristics versus the outer how to.
And it's and it's you know, what's so wonderful about that variety is it does the very thing that, you know, I'm always up on my soapbox about with reading aloud and.
Very, which is where the whole thing, you know, as somebody who's listened, that's where everything started for us was
And Kelly was sitting right next to me and her head was, Just whipped around in utter, unfeigned disbelief when I said that I don't outline.
And then Kelly said, wouldn't it be great if we had these conversations on a podcast? And, and it's like, wow.
Like, I mean, Kelly did all the legwork and still does all the legwork, you know, edits and, and, um, and I just like, I think, wow, do I need one more thing to do? But, um, it's also been so every time we do an episode, I'm so grateful that we talked, you know, and there's so much that, you know, because, uh, Kelly sorts through the reader questions and we get, you know, pretty powerful questions.
One of the ones that really like kind of undid me was, you know, what do you do when people are mean? And I think it's nice to have a place to talk about that kind of stuff, so.
Yeah, you have a really wonderful range of questions that the two of you tackle from the one that you just mentioned.
But things like what's your biggest fear in writing? How do you get started? What if it's not? Perfect.
All sorts of questions that writers, I'd say young and older, have, whether you're a kid who's learning to write or you're an adult who's trying to get to that dream.
Diverse, I should say, in terms of the writing process versus reading versus the inner characteristics versus the outer how to.
And it's and it's you know, what's so wonderful about that variety is it does the very thing that, you know, I'm always up on my soapbox about with reading aloud and.
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