Bianca with Julie Hedlund on Song After Song: The Musical Life of Julie Andrews

Get ready to be inspired by Julie Hedlund and her outstanding involvement in writing communities! In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast, she shares her research process behind her masterpiece Song After Song: The Musical Life of Julie Andrews. Hedlund hopes to inspire readers to learn from Andrews' hard work and celebrate their unique paths. Julie Hedlund is the award-winning children's picture book author of Over, Bear! Under, Where? She spends much of her time inside her imagination, and when not writing or reading, she enjoys playing in the mountains near her home in Boulder, Colorado. She lives with her two teenage children and their high-maintenance hound dog. Transcription: You can read the transcription on The Children's Book Review. Order a Copy: Song After Song: The Musical Life of Julie Hedlund on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bookshop.org⁠⁠. Resources: You can find out more about Julie at https://juliehedlund.com/. Follow her on Twitter @juliefhedlund. 12x12 Challenge: https://www.12x12challenge.com/. Picture Book Summit: https://picturebooksummit.com/. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews: https://amzn.to/3PrNAkx. Discussion Topics: Julie Hedlund talks about: Her writing process and the importance of being a reader before becoming a writer. Her involvement in writing communities like 12 x 12 and Picture Book Summit, where Julie Andrews is a keynote speaker this year. How a comment from Julie Andrews' daughter led to writing a picture book biography about Julie Andrews Extensive research for the book, including reading Julie's memoir, doing onsite research in London, and listening to interviews. The book's emotional climax and how readers can take away the message that they can use their gifts to improve the world. The benefits of reading from biographies of people who work hard and achieve great things, just like Julie Andrews. Embracing individual paths and not comparing oneself to others.