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September 8, 2024 by Travis Jonker

LIVE from My Car: THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW Unraveled

September 8, 2024 by Travis Jonker   Leave a Comment

Travis: While driving home from a book release event for The Ship in the Window, I turned on my recorder and talked about how the book came to be, from original inspiration all the way to my hope for the book.

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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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