On June 29, 2018 Julia Hanna interviewed Kelly Clear, the narrator for the Audible edition of When Sword Met Bow, and Aya Katz, its author.
Kelly Clear is from a musical family and grew up reading books out loud to his siblings. He has been married for thirteen years and has four children and one on the way. Vacuum County was the first book he narrated on Audible, released last year. Kelly and his family moved from Michigan to Washington State last year after finishing the primary recording for Vacuum County.
Kelly Clear holding u p a copy of When Sword Met Bow
Topics discussed in the interview include:
- Why it is important to read to children
- How different children respond to being read to
- Favorite parts of When Sword Met Bow
- The children in the Clear household and preparing for the new baby
- Kelly’s participation in Community Choir
- Library programs that foster literacy
- Laura Ingalls Wilder and current political moves to penalize her fiction
- The AR reading program in the public schools
- Other works for Audible recorded by Kelly Clear
RELATED
https://hubpages.com/literature/When-Sword-Met-Bow-a-Book-Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU3wEp7MqFI
