Drawing Our Difficulties: David Soren on Turning Pain into Characters

Podcast: Reading With Your Kids Podcast · Jedlie Circus Productions, Inc

Opublikowano: 2026-09-08

In this heartfelt episode, Jed welcomes back filmmaker and author David Soren to celebrate Visible: The Sort of True Story of a Not So Hidden Disease, the powerful follow-up to his middle grade novel Invisible. Drawing from his own experience growing up with Crohn's disease, David shares how his fictional stand-in, JJ Sugar, navigates life with his biker-beast disease, Norm, and how their relationship slowly shifts from fear and resentment toward understanding and even a kind of friendship. David and Jed talk about the many kids living with hidden diseases—conditions like Crohn's, diabetes, and other invisible il...