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February 4, 2025 by Travis Jonker

Behind the scenes of CABOOSE with Ruth Chan and Travis Jonker

February 4, 2025 by Travis Jonker   Leave a Comment

Travis: Today is a special episode of The Yarn: I talk with Ruth Chan about our new picture book, Caboose. The conversation took place last summer at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Diego.

It was our first time talking about the book together and I had so much fun hearing Ruth describe how she brought the story to life.

Ruth and Travis

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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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