Talking with Kate Messner

The writer and educator discusses her ongoing nonfiction History Smashers series, which focuses on correcting common misconceptions in American historical education, and talks about the importance of multiple viewpoints and an accessible voice.

Terrell A. Young, Deanna Day, Barbara A. Ward

BOOKS AND AUTHORS Grades 4 to 7 Talking with Kate Messner The writer and educator discusses her ongoing nonfiction History Smashers series, which focuses on correcting common misconceptions in American historical education, and talks about the importance of multiple viewpoints and an accessible voice. By Terrell A. Young, Deanna Day, and Barbara A. Ward A middle-school English teacher for 15 years, Kate Messner burst onto the children’s literature scene first with several middle-grade novels, then, in 2011, with her picture books Sea Monster’s First Day and Over and Under the Snow, and she’s been steadily amassing praise and honors for her subsequent titles. Not only does she write biographies (Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor, 2021) and explore environmental science topics (The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the…

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