And somehow I felt that that was part of what ‘Alma’s Way’ was about.” She added that it reminded her of “kids who think that they are stupid because they don’t have the answers. “That line, and it’s such a simple line, was so fraught with meaning,” Manzano recalled. Simensky left the theme up to Manzano, who thought back to her own childhood resourcefulness and to a resonant remark from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway show “Hamilton”: “ I’m not stupid.” “We didn’t have a show about thinking,” said Linda Simensky, head of content for PBS Kids, who, in 2013, urged Manzano to develop a series about a Latino family after discovering the many children’s books she had written.
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