“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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