Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic and Vashti Harrison, HELLO, STAR
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by author and illustrator duo Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic and Vashti Harrison to talk about their new picture book, Hello, Star. Stephanie tells Zibby about how its premise was inspired by the questions her young son asked her former astronaut husband about space — and why she decided to feature a mother-daughter pair in the story instead. Vashti shares how Stephanie's lyrical writing encouraged her to try more creative illustration techniques. The two also reveal how they serendipitously found their way to each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
| 0:29.1 | And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:32.8 | And my website is Zibby Owens.com. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.7 | Vashti Harrison and Stephanie V. W. Luchinovick are the co-authors illustrators of Hello Star. Stephanie is the author of |
| 0:47.1 | The End of Something Wonderful, a practical guide to a backyard funeral, and the middle grade novel, |
| 0:52.6 | The League of Picky Eaters. She has been a contributor |
| 0:54.8 | to the New York Times motherload blog, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, CNN's |
| 0:59.1 | Eatocracy, The Atlantic Wire, and more. Stephanie lives in the Bay Area. Vashti Harrison is a number |
| 1:05.0 | one New York Times best-selling creator of little leaders, bold women in black history, |
| 1:09.8 | little dreamers, visionary women around the world, and little legends, exceptional men in black history, little dreamers, visionary women around the |
| 1:11.6 | world, and little legends, exceptional men in black history. She's also the illustrator of |
| 1:15.8 | Lupita Nyango's Solway and Matthew Cherry's hair love, among others. She earned her BA in studio art |
| 1:21.7 | and media studies from the University of Virginia and her MFA and film slash video from |
| 1:25.9 | Cal Arts, where she snuck into animation and illustration |
| 1:28.5 | classes to learn from Dizzy and DreamWorks Legends. Welcome, Stephanie and Vashti. Thanks so much for |
| 1:34.1 | coming on Momsden have time to read books to discuss your collaboration, Hello Star, a beautiful, |
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