I still haven't gotten over
See You in the Cosmos by
Jack Cheng(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2017). So after I reviewed the book
here and cooked up some classroom and book club activities for it, I just had to grill Jack about his influences and creative process. Read our interview below!
Hi, Jack! What motivates and inspires you to write for young readers?
Getting to meet kids (both in school and through my books)
who are at a time in their life when they're really starting to form their
values. It's a time when they're really starting to ask the big questions about
life and the people around them—the same big questions that we keep asking, I
think, even when we grow into adults.
I was excited when I saw that the main character of See
You in the Cosmos, Alex Petroski, was Filipino American. Is there a particular
reason you made Alex Filipino American?
To be honest, I thought about making Alex Chinese American
but I felt like it would've been a different novel. I wou…
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