Meeting a Need: An Interview with Christine Mapondera-Talley, Founder of Global Kidz House

You know that meme that was going around at the beginning of the COVID pandemic about how Shakespeare wrote King Lear during his own quarantine? If you’re anything like me you probably laughed it off, bought a tomato plant, claimed to everyone you knew that it was a victory garden, and finally sank into a stupor, overwhelmed by your own productivity.

If you were Christine Mapondera-Talley, you started your own publishing house.

Less than a month ago I saw a message on my SCBWI-IL mail...