Some parents might have punished their young daughter for fibbing as she told the neighbors about her 3-legged cat named Spot, the ghost in the attic, the family's trip to Paris, and more. But this Indiana author's parents called her "imaginative" and encouraged her to write her stories down. She went on to have over 50 published books, ranging from fun picture books like Muncha, Muncha, Muncha and Penny & Pip to children's biographies of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Buffalo Bill Cody and Eleanor Roosevelt. The American Library Association gave her the 2026 Children's Literature Legacy Award for demonstrating "integrity for all children's lives and experiences." I heard her speak many years ago on the importance of writing "a shitty first draft." This is the funny and still imaginative author Candace Fleming.
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