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<p>This special Story Seeds collaboration brings together nine-year old Jocelyn and Newbery Award-winning Katherine Applegate, author of <i>The One and Only Ivan</i> and <i>Willodeen</i>.</p><p>Katherine helps Jocelyn grow this story idea:</p><p><i>My story seed is about a super service dog (based off of my own dog Sally) who helps kids with cancer feel better. </i></p><p>Join our host Betsy Bird as she guides you through this collaboration full of hope and resilience. Featured segments include:</p><ul><li>Katherine and Jocelyn's meeting over video chat where they get to know each other, meet each other's dogs, and brainstorm how to grow Jocelyn's story idea (6:44)</li><li>Real-time voice memo recordings where Katherine chronicles her writing process for Jocelyn (19:50)</li><li>An immersive storytime where Katherine narrates the full-fledged tale — "Two Brave Girls, One with Four Paws"—she grew from Jocelyn's story seed (23:56)</li></ul><p>This episode is also available on YouTube.<a ...