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LIVE: Best-selling graphic novelist @goraina joins Kojo For Kids. We're taking questions at 800-433-8850 — if you're a kid!

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@goraina "I loved to draw starting from age zero."

-@goraina

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@goraina "It rained the night I was born."

-@goraina on why her parents named her "Raina"

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@goraina "I used to draw my characters kind of standing in the middle of a blank space."

-@goraina on how she eventually learned to draw backgrounds

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@goraina "Most important: the feelings that have stayed with me over the years."

-@goraina on what inspires her work

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@goraina 7yo Violet asks: "What will your next book be about" and 8yo Olive asks the same thing...

@goraina "I can't really talk about it yet ... I promise I am working on it ... I am exploring some more personal stories."

-@goraina on what inspires her work

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@goraina "Everything that happened to the character Raina happened to me for real.

-@goraina, bestselling graphic novelist

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@goraina 10yo Hallie from @murchschool asks: "How did you decide to make the Baby-Sitters Club into a graphic novel?"

@goraina said she loved them as a kid and that "it's really responsible for launching my whole career."

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@goraina "I haven't wanted to do anything else since that day."

@goraina on her decision at age 9 to become a cartoonist

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@goraina @murchschool "I think he was so nice back in the day too. I just didn't have the context to realize that."

@goraina on how nice her orthodonist was when she met him after publishing "Smile," in which the character based on him comes off as kinda mean

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@goraina @murchschool "They are somebody who takes my black and white art and then they put colors into all of it ... it's kind of like a coloring book but it's happening on a computer."

- @goraina on the colorists who help her create her books

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