What Gives Katherine Applegate Hope

Worth Noting by Matthew C. Winner

May 2, 202604:06Kids & family

Katherine Applegate, author of Wombat Waiting (Storytide), shares what is giving her hope today: librarians. This is an ongoing miniseries of indefinite length in which I invite my friends from the kidlit community to sh...

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