A Talk with Cynthia Kadohata
The author of the 2005 Newbery Award winning book Kira-Kira answers questions about this popular book at her home in California. She talks about where she gets her ideas from, discusses her writing techniques and introduces the viewer to her pet Doberman, Shika Kojika. --20 mins. (c)2005.

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"Kadohata shares her feeling of 'pure, uncomplicated joy' at winning the Newbery and shows viewers the first galley of the book filled with questions, notes, and post-its. She reads aloud a short excerpt and advises young writers to 'write what you know' explaining that 'out of our homes come our stories'...A valuable resource for classes..." 

School Library Journal, May 2006 

School Library Journal--Video Pick of the Week,5/22/06       

Curriculum Connections Pick, Fall 2006

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