"Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story."

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We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets kids to cross over, so to speak, so they can appreciate Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye and Langston Hughes.

— Kwame Alexander