Diversity in Children’s Literature Fellow Nathalie Alonso Talks About Her Why

Sep 6, 2019 | Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News, Latinx Voices

“As a nonfiction picture book writer, I imagine a reader who is fascinated by the world around him, a reader who is curous about the people she meets and the places that she goes.”—Nathalie Alonso

We asked Nathalie, a 2019-2020 Diversity Fellow, why she writes for children:

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