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An Interview with Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White

For my thirty-third Dream Gardens kid lit podcast, I interviewed authors Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White about their favorite middle grade novel,  Wayside Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sacher.

First published in 1978 by Avon Camelot Books, Wayside Stories from Wayside School is a collection of thirty stories about a strange school with thirty classrooms built one on top of the other. There you will meet Mrs. Jewls, the teacher who thinks all her students are monkeys;  John, who can only read upside down and has to stand on his head to read the right way;  Leslie, who decides her toes are useless and tries to sell them; Calvin, who has to deliver a note to the nineteenth floor which was never built to a teacher who does not exist;  and many more. With its light-hearted absurd humor and  nonsensical situations, Wayside School has long been a favorite book of kids who want to get lost in a school that seems even nuttier than their own.

Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White  are co-authors of the middle grade novels Shivers! The Pirate Who’s Afraid of Everything  and Shivers!, The Pirate Who’s Back in Bunny Slippers as well as Time Travelers, which will be released this Spring.  In addition, Annabeth and Connor perform for school assembly programs and have produced several videos about the writing process for kids. You can find Annabeth and Connor’s website at annabethandconnor.com

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