In Conversation with Kate Messner
| Having a conversation with Kate Messner was a delight. I love talking with her and learning a little bit about here first career as a television journalist and then about her transition to becoming a teacher. It was when she was a teacher that she first became interested in writing for children and adolescents. Her newest book is called The Trouble with Heroes. In this book the protagonist is given the task of hiking all of the 46 peaks in the Adirondacks that are over 4,000 feet. I learned that Kate is also an official 46er having climbed all of those summits. Kate is persistent notetaker who carries a notebook of one kind or another wherever she goes. She has some interesting stories about taking notes while hiking through the snow with middle school students or sitting in a small town cafe after near by prison break. Take a few minutes to join our conversation. |  |