Mac Barnett & Sydney Smith: SANTA’S FIRST CHRISTMAS
Travis: I spoke with Mac Barnett and Sydney Smith about their latest book Santa’s First Christmas. It was a good time.
Santa’s First Christmas is one of the best picture books of 2024, and in this episode Mac and Sydney take us behind the scenes of how it came to be.
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About Travis Jonker
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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