![]() ![]() ![]() Her life story offers an inspiring lesson: that disagreeing doesn’t make you disagreeable, and that important change happens one disagreement at a time. Debbie graciously agreed to an interview, and I was thrilled! So for all of you who want to learn about this top notch author, read along!ĮL: Why RBG? Were you interested in her before you started your research?ĭL: Why RBG?! Really, we (by which I mean the team at Simon & Schuster, my agent, me) were surprised to realize there wasn’t a picture book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg before this one! She is such a great role model-someone who’s been dissenting from unfairness since she was a kid, who’s been a path-breaker and a change-maker by challenging outmoded ways of thinking and by calling out injustice where she sees it. Lucky for me (and all of us), Debbie Levy is not only a talented author, but she is also a genuinely good and generous person. I am amazed at all the wonderful titles out there! When I happened upon Debbie Levy’s I Dissent, the story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I knew I had to not only read it and use it in my classes, but I had to find out more about the author. As someone who is trying to break into non-fiction writing for kids, I have been reading as many non-fiction books as I can get my hands on. ![]()
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