My Adventures with KA Applegate

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You guys, I just met Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant and they were both so delightful!

I'm a librarian and I'm attending this conference for children's & youth librarians, and Katherine Applegate is one of the keynote speakers. Which, obviously, I've been super excited about ever since I got permission from my boss to register for this.

Her speech was so lovely--she talked a lot about how people make connections, and how librarians connect books with readers and authors connect readers with ideas, etc. And she talked a lot about The One and Only Ivan and made basically everyone cry.

Then afterward there was a signing, and I was one of the first people in line. I had a copy of Ivan to get signed for myself and a copy of the reissued Animorphs #1 for my friend Keith (who some of you might know? He used to be one of the people who ran morphz.com like 100 years ago?) Anyway so I handed over my books with their post-its and was basically word-vomiting about how I met Keith because of Animorphs and so great blah blah blah and she was very nice and said how old it made her feel that people who read Animorphs as kids are now actual grownups, which is, in fact, pretty weird.

Then I walked away from the signing table, and looked down at my books... and she'd signed it "To Keith, Morph On! Keith."

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