Join 1999's Newbery Award-winning author for a lively conversation about his life, writing and family. Louis Sachar invites the viewer into his home in Austin, Texas where he talks about where he gets his ideas from and about his many influences. He describes how his award-winning book Holes came to be written and what he has in store for his readers in the future. -20 mins
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Topics for classroom discussion and assignments:

• In Holes, Stanley Yelnats is scared of the yellow spotted lizards. Make up your own creature and feature it in a story.

• Norman Redpost, a character in one of Louis Sachar’s books is humiliated by an insensitive teacher.  Write about a real or fictional experience of a student who is humiliated by a teacher. Also, you should explain how the teacher could have corrected the student without humiliating him or her.

• Discuss why people are insensitive to other people’s feelings. Give examples of both kids and adults being insensitive.

• How does Louis Sachar describe the way censorship starts? Write an essay on censorship.