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Matt de la Peña on Small Stories and the Power of Perspective

Matt de la Peña on Small Stories and the Power of Perspective

Update: 2025-09-02
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Matt de la Peña is the Newbery Medal-winning author of seven Young Adult novels and five picture books. We talked with him about writing small stories and what it means to write a book that is, as he calls it, “Diversity 2.0.”

You can read a transcript of this episode on our website.

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Matt de la Peña on Small Stories and the Power of Perspective

Matt de la Peña on Small Stories and the Power of Perspective

Brooklyn Public Library