In every chapter, he shows a little bit of his journey toward his career as a comics artist, from trading cartoons with Leslie while she’s in halfway houses to studying in a middle-school comics class to first getting a cartoon published in the paper. But now that I am in my teens, I fill sketchbooks just to deal with life. In junior high, I drew to impress my friends. As he describes it, “When I was a kid, I’d draw to get attention from my family. All through the story, Jarrett learns to be the artist who will draw the narrative he’s currently telling in Hey, Kiddo. The constant note in his personality is his love of art. He learns to value loving behavior over blood ties: His grandmother, he decides in the end, is more of a mother to him than his biological mom Leslie ever was. Krosoczka is a New York Times bestselling author, a two-time winner of the Childrens Choice Book Award for the Third to Fourth Grade Book of the Year, an Eisner award nominee, and the author and/or illustrator of more than 30 books for young readers. However, he’s also a sweet, regular kid who loves Disneyland and playing with trucks. He has frequent horrific nightmares of monsters and betrayals, which emerge from the frightening unreliability of his mother and the violent tempers of his grandparents. As a child, Jarrett is both sweet and troubled.
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