Extra Stories: “There Were No Books” with Sonia Manzano

How It Is

Hello Sunshine

Feminism, Kelly Mccreary, 450895, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Phoebe Robinson, Jameela Jamil, Reese Witherspoon, Women

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Before she became Maria on Sesame Street, Sonia Manzano was a girl who grew up without access to books or a sense of what reading was—until one moment on the subway opened the door to a world of stories, creativity, and discovery. This is an extra story from one of your favorite How It Is season 2 storytellers—stay tuned, season 3 is coming soon!

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0:00.0	Hello sunshine.
0:02.0	Hello sunshine.
0:03.0	Hello sunshine.
0:04.0	Gotta make hay while the sunshine.
0:05.6	What's this?
0:06.4	This is Hello Sunshine.
0:08.3	What if by sharing our stories we could change the world.
0:13.0	Welcome to Hello Sunshine.
0:15.0	This is how it is, the show where you hear women tell their own stories in their own words.
0:23.8	We're unfiltered, real, and totally ourselves.
0:27.0	Welcome back everyone.
0:28.2	I'm Amy Choi, one of the executive producers of how it is.
0:32.2	And this week we bring you the last in our extra stories series.
0:39.7	This one comes from one of your favorite and my favorite people.
0:43.8	She has influenced and helped educate generations of children on Sesame Street.
0:48.6	Today, Sonia Monsanto.
0:51.0	She tells us about growing up in a house without any books and why she feels that fostering
0:56.2	creativity from a young age is so important.
1:02.2	There were no books. I'm afraid there were no books. I only read the Dick and Jane
1:07.8	series. See Spot Run, that was the school books that we had and as a matter of fact I had a very not a good teacher because she would make me wait until the rest of the class caught up as we were reading C spot run. So I didn't know what reading was for. I thought it was, I don't know, some exercise
1:26.8	that teachers made you go through. I made no connection about what reading was for until
1:31.8	I was on the subway once with my sister and I
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