The Picture Book to Novel Transition: Carole Lindstrom Presents RED RIVER ROSE and We Reveal the Cover

It pays to have a long memory.

Two years ago I interviewed author Carole Lindstrom, who is Anishinaabe/Metis and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, about her picture book biography Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior. Now in the course of our discussion I did the thing that I pretty much do in all my interviews (because it yields such delightful results much of the time) and asked Carole what she might be up to next. She responded:

“I am working on a middle grade historic...