My Kirkus Q&A with Hope Anita Smith
June 8th, 2017 by jules
“I’m a storyteller. I love telling stories. I’ve found poetry to be one of the most beautiful and effective ways to do that. Poems say what they have to say, and then they are silent. The rest is up to the reader – what they get out of them and how that makes them feel. I want them to feel something. I always want them to feel something.”
Over at Kirkus today, I talk to author, poet, and illustrator Hope Anita Smith, pictured here, about her newest picture book, My Daddy Rules the World: Poems about Dads (Christy Ottaviano/Henry Holt, May 2017).
That is here.
Next week, I’ll follow up with some of her torn-paper art from the book.
Until tomorrow …
Photo used by permission of Hope Anita Smith.
