Just Try It: An Interview with Mara Rockliff

“Try it, try it, and you may. Try it and you may, I say.” Anyone who has ever read their children Green Eggs and Ham repeatedly probably has those very lines burned into the folds and crevices of their brains. I sure as heck know that I do, but that didn’t keep me from interviewing author Mara Rockliff about her latest picture book biography, Try It! How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat, with art by Giselle Potter.

Now you know I love a biography when it’s of someone I, as an adult, n...