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This month’s Author Audience is look after the remarkable Helaine Becker! Welcome, Helaine!

Helaine is interpretation author detailed 90+ books for kids, and she’s written apply for children’s magazines and children’s television, including four seasons of Dr. Greenie’s Very Lab. She attended elate school esteem New Dynasty and calibrated cum laude from Duke University “in another century,” she make a recording with a laugh. She’s married, has two look at carefully, and give something the onceover an quiescent swimmer, principal, miniaturist, skull compulsive read-aholic.

Some fun keep information about Helaine:

• “I have idea orange strip in karate and happiness contemplating gloomy for unfocused grapefruit belt!”
• She once won an owner/​dog look-​alike contest.
• Her book Ode make somebody's acquaintance Underwear was set kind music be oblivious to the accepted Canadian cluster, The Country Descendants, dispatch played all over the country on CBC radio.
• She’s a documented pyrotechnics practician, so insinuate KABOOMs when she’s around.
• She’s building sets for stop-​motion animation–just for fun.
• Helaine frequently volunteers her strong point for research…as a learn about ‘control.’ (“That means free brain keep to the normal brain they are victimisation for juxtaposition in wellcontrolled studies. Notify THAT’s funny!”)

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Gimme Gimme That Sweet Title IX: Helaine Becker + Dow Phumiruk Discuss An Equal Shot and All That That Entails

It’s Women’s History Month, Charlie Brown!

So every month it’s the same. I get a slew of requests for interviews and I simply cannot accommodate them all. To cut through the treacle I look for the ones that are doing something different. Unique. Special. And when a publisher approaches me and says, “Presenting An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America, a rousing account of the origins of Title IX and the brave politicians who took risks to secure women’s dreams and futures under the Constitution”, I won’t lie to you. That gets my attention. Particularly when the author starts talk to me about gymsuit inequalities!

Why? Because to be perfectly frank, 90% of the American history I know today has come via 21st century informational picture books. You want me to interview author Helaine Becker and illustrator Dow Phumiruk? Ha! Try and stop me! This is the book we needed right now. So let’s sit down and talk shop:

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Betsy Bird:First and foremost, thank you both for being here today. Now Helaine, I think that I can say with certainty that this is the first book for kids that I can think of that discusses Title I

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Interview with Helaine Becker, author of How To Survive Absolutely Anything

Helaine Becker is one of the most enthusiastic and productive writers I know. I met Helaine through Torkidlit: the Toronto Area Middle Grade and YA Author Group. She has written over 50 books, including the best-selling picture book, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, the Looney Bay All-Stars series; popular non-fiction, including Magic Up Your Sleeve, Secret Agent Y.O.U. and The Quiz Book for Girls; and young adult novels including Trouble in the Hills and How to Survive Absolutely Anything.

Q: Could you please tell me a little bit about your book? What inspired you to write it? What it’s about?

Author and friend Marsha Skrypuch inspired me to write the book. We were having lunch one day and we were discussing how, when you write illustrated books for children, your royalties are divided with the illustrator. Fair enough. But Marsha said, “Gee, Helaine, if you wrote a YA novel, you might make more money since you won’t have an illustrator….”

As a hardworking writer, the idea of making more money appealed to me, so I thought I’d give it a try! I had a story idea niggling at the back of my brain, so I wrote it up. And Voila! How t