Podcast

Helena Ku Rhee (The Children's Book Podcast #572)

Helena Ku Rhee (@HelenaRhee) shares THE PAPER KINGDOM, a new picture book illustrated by Pascal Campion. In our conversation Helena talks...

Seeing Without Fear

I co-host a podcast on Book Riot called Kidlit These Days where we act as your kidlit connoisseurs, pairing the best of children’s...

Weshoyot Alvitre (The Children's Book Podcast #571)

Weshoyot Alvitre (@weshoyot) shares AT THE MOUNTAIN’S BASE, a poetic story written by Traci Sorell and illustrated by Weshoyot about a...

Nikki Grimes (The Children's Book Podcast #570)

Nikki Grimes (@nikkigrimes9) shares ORDINARY HAZARDS, a memoir in verse that has not only garnered six starred reviews on top of being...

Kat Leyh (The Children's Book Podcast #569)

Kat Leyh (@kaymlay) shares SNAPDRAGON, solo debut graphic novel about a girl named Snap, an old lady named Jacks (who might actually be a...

Introducing Levine Querido (The Children's Book Podcast #568)

Arthur A. Levine (@ArthurALevine1), head of Levine Querido and a publisher and advocate responsible for bringing many widely loved books...

The 2020 Sydney Taylor Book Awards (The Children's Book Podcast #567)

There are countless individuals working throughout publishing to center historically marginalized voices. Perhaps none do it more...

Serving Up the 2020 Youth Media Awards

I co-host a podcast on Book Riot called Kidlit These Days where we act as your kidlit connoisseurs, pairing the best of children’s...

Dismantling White Privilege

I co-host a podcast on Book Riot called Kidlit These Days where we act as your kidlit connoisseurs, pairing the best of children’s...

Elizabeth Lilly (The Children's Book Podcast #566)

Elizabeth Lilly (@elizabethmlilly) shares GERALDINE, a picture book about a giraffe whose family moves to a new town where they are the...

Redefining the Boy Hero (The Children's Book Podcast #565)

Last November I had the esteemed privilege of moderating a panel at NCTE, the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of...

Readers' Thoughts on Reading (The Children's Book Podcast #564)

Today I am joined by a team of 3rd graders at my school. Specifically, these are 3rd graders who signed up to take a podcasting class...

Frané Lessac (The Children's Book Podcast #563)

Frané Lessac (@franelessac) shares UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS and UNDER THE MILKY WAY. Frané has made many beautiful books, but it was...

Elizabeth Zunon (The Children's Book Podcast #562)

Elizabeth Zunon (@ElizabethZunon) shares BEDTIME FOR SWEET CREATURES, which is written by Nikki Grimes. It is a bedtime story of a parent...

Angela Joy (The Children's Book Podcast #561)

Angela Joy (@AngelaJoyBlog) shares BLACK IS A RAINBOW COLOR. This beautiful book, illustrated by one-to-watch and the one-to-wow Ekua...