The Children's Book Podcast
757 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago -Exploring big ideas and the way that stories can help us feel seen, understood, and valued. The Children's Book Podcast features insightful and sincere interviews with authors, illustrators, and everyone involved in taking a book from drawing board to bookshelf. Hosted by a teacher and school librarian, each episode seeks to connect kids and listeners of all ages to powerful, impactful, and lasting stories, and the people who tell them.
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Episodes
The Best Book Ever [this week] - January 26, 2015
January 26, 2015 19:10 - 8 minutes - 7.74 MBFive books reviewed in five minutes. - Bilby: Secrets of an Australian Marsupial by Edel Wignell, illustrated by Mark Jackson - Hansel & Gretel retold by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti - Fire Birds: Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests by Sneed B. Collard III - Worst in Show by William Bee, illustrated by Kate Hindley - Is There a Dog in This Book? by Viviane Schwarz
David Huyck
January 23, 2015 02:05 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBDavid Huyck (@huyckd), illustrator of If Kids Ruled the World (@PenguinTeen), Nine Words Max (@Tundra Books), and That One Spooky Night, stops by to talk about massaging a manuscript, self-pulishing in comics, and if it's possible to have "original art" from a book where the art was created digitally.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
January 20, 2015 00:34 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBKimberly Brubaker Bradley (@kimbbbradley), author of The War That Saved My Life (@PenguinTeen), stops by to talk about researching the stories of evacuees, writing a character who is confined and then experiences freedom, and her pretty awesome writer origin story involving Patricia MacLauchlan and Jane Yolen.
Samantha Berger
January 15, 2015 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44 MBSamantha Berger (@BergerBooks), author of Snoozefest (@PenguinKids) and A Crankenstein Valentine (@LittleBrown) stops by to talk about working for Nickelodeon, turning in fully illustrated manuscripts, and celebrating the retreat to sleep.
Steve Antony
January 12, 2015 15:08 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBSteve Antony (@MrSteveAntony), author of Betty Goes Bananas (@schwartzwade), Please, Mr. Panda (@Scholastic), and The Queen's Hat, stops by to talk about letting his characters tell the story, the humor in temper tantrums, and remembering to say the "magic word".
Cece Bell
January 08, 2015 23:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBCece Bell (@CeceBellBooks), author of El Deafo (@AbramsKids), the Sock Monkey series, and Rabbit and Robot, stops by to talk about creating an alter ego, being meek, mild, and nonconfrontational, and how when you grow up all of your differences are actually what become your super powers.
Jon Klassen
January 05, 2015 23:00 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBJon Klassen (@BurstofBeaden), Caldecott-winning author illustrator of I Want My Hat Back (@Candlewick) and This is Not My Hat, and illustrator of Mac Barnett's Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn, stops by to talk about how an audience can detect when you've broken your own rule, illustrations with a job to do, and remembering that day when you needed someone to help you not give up.