First Draft Episode #341: Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children's Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

• Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Dr Seuss, author of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Green Eggs and Ham and more

• Go, Dog, Go by P.J. Eastman

• Franz Kafka, author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, and more

• Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and more

• Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and more

• Jon's Science Verse

• The Astronuts, Jon's series with Steven Weinberg

• Jonathan Baumbach, author of The Pavilion of Former Wives, Dreams of Molly and many more

• Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity's Rainbow, Inherent Vice, and The Crying of Lot 49

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and more

• Carlos Fuentes, author of Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, and more

• Charles McGrath, former editor of The New York Times Book Review and former deputy editor of The New Yorker. He is currently a writer at large for The New York Times

• Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

• Boy: Tales From Childhood and Going Solo are autobiographical books written by Roald Dahl

• Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita

• Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There's a Ghost In This House. Listen to his First Draft interviews here and here.

• Battle Bunny by Mac Barnett and Jon Scieszka

• Matt de la Peña, author of seven critically acclaimed young adult novels including Mexican Whiteboy and Newbery Medal–winning author of Last Stop on Market Street talks about his newest collaboration with illustrator Christian Robinson, Milo Imagines the World. Listen to his First Draft interview here.

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