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Children's books author Matt de la Peña tells it like it is


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What no one tells you after winning a Newberry Medal is how difficult it is to write your next book.
In 2016, San Diego author Matt de la Peña won the prestigious children’s literature award for “Last Stop on Market Street,” a picture book that deals with inequity. The Newberry is rarely awarded to picture books, and de le Peña was also the first Hispanic author to ever receive it. Additionally, the book’s illustrator, Christian Robinson, was awarded the Caldecott Medal.
That’s a lot of success for an author who spent his early years in National City never realizing that writing books was even a career option. So when it was time to start his follow-up book, 2018’s “Love,” de la Peña wrote one line and thought, “is this a Newbery Award-winning line?” ....

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