Shelf Care Interview: Irene Latham and Charles Waters on Dictionary for a Better World

Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people. This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Lerner. In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Maggie Reagan talks to Irene Latham and Charles Waters. Irene Latham is the author of many books, including two novels for children, Leaving Gee's Bend and Don't Feed the Boy, winner of the 2016 ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award. Her poetry books for children include Dear Wandering Wildebeest, When the Sun Shines on Antarctica, and the award-winning, Can I Touch Your Hair? with Charles Waters. Irene lives on a lake in Alabama, where she does her best to live her poem every single day. Charles Waters is a children's poet, actor, and the aforementioned co-author of Can I Touch Your Hair? His poems have appeared in various anthologies, including One Minute Till Bedtime and The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry. Charles performs his one-person show as well as conducts poetry performance and writing workshops for elementary and middle-school audiences. He lives in New York City. Their book Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z, illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini, released earlier last month from the Lerner imprint Carolrhoda.

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