Lita Judge, "Don't Worry, Wuddles" (Atheneum, 2023)
Lita Judge is the award-winning author and illustrator of three dozen children’s books (!) including Flight School, Penguin Flies Home, Red Sled, Red Hat, Good Morning to Me!, Born in the Wild, Even the Smallest Will Grow, When You Need Wings, as well as her much celebrated, illustrated young adult novel, Mary’s Monster. In our conversation, we celebrate her new picture book, Don't Worry, Wuddles (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023) and also discuss another recent children's book from this year, Dogs: A History of Our Best Friends which launched on April 18, 2023 from Harry N. Abrams. Lita talks about her personal journey from a small island in Alaska to her highly successful career as an author and illustrator. Mel Rosenberg is a professor emeritus of microbiology (Tel Aviv University) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is co-founder of Ourboox, a web platform with some 260,000 ebooks that allows anyone to create and share flipbooks comprising text, pictures and videos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From "New Books in Children's Literature"
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