# How do you balance sharing personal childhood experiences and making them engaging for young readers

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Podcast: [StoryKind](https://stenobird.com/podcast/storykind-7640387)
Published: 2026-04-06T10:00:00+00:00
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Kate DiCamillo and Kelly Yang discuss how they balance sharing personal, often painful, childhood experiences and parts of their life with fictionalizing them and making them engaging for young readers!

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