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"Not every book is for every child, but for every child there is a book." The Children’s Book Review, is a resource devoted to children’s literature and literacy.
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Well Done, Shipmates: Mark C. Fava on Kindness, Teamwork, and Andy the Admiral (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast , host Bianca Schulze welcomes aboard retired Navy Captain, aviation lawyer, and author Mark C. Fava to talk about Andy the Admiral and the USS Shipshape , the first book in his Shipshape Shipmates series. Inspired by the best leaders Mark served with and by his own Navy father, Andy the Admiral takes young readers onto a bustling aircraft carrier where kindness, good manners, honesty, and teamwork keep everything shipshape. Mark shares how three de
Megan E. Freeman on The Secret to Belonging: Addiction, Norway, and Verse (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast , host Bianca Schulze welcomes award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Megan E. Freeman to discuss her YA novel in verse, The Secret to Belonging . Megan shares how she turned the experience of being the "invisible child" in a family shaped by a sibling's addiction into a story about longing, courage, and creating joy from the ashes of despair. From the moment a college fund vanishes to the scholarship that sends her protagonist to a rem
Shaun Tan Talks Hometown, The Arrival's 20th Anniversary, and Why He Keeps Returning to Home (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast , host Bianca Schulze sits down with Shaun Tan—the Oscar-winning author and illustrator of The Arrival —to talk about his new visual novel, Hometown , a wildly imaginative, dreamlike story about a girl who must decide whether to trust a stranger who tells her she doesn't belong in the perfect world she's always known. Shaun shares the story behind the story—how Hometown developed on its own timeline rather than as a deliberate companion to The Arriv
Shifa Saltagi Safadi on Sisters Alone: Grief, Sisterhood, and Survival in Verse (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast , host Bianca Schulze sits down with National Book Award–winning author Shifa Saltagi Safadi to talk about her new novel in verse, Sisters Alone —a heart-stopping story about two sisters, trapped alone by a sudden blizzard, who must survive the storm and finally tell each other the truth. Shifa shares the story behind the story—how a childhood memory of stealing a library book about dolphins first made her realize she was a reader, why she still wre
Stay Curious: Matthew Cordell on 102 and the Case for Wonder (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast , host Bianca Schulze sits down with Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator Matthew Cordell to talk about his new picture book, 102 —a cozy, topsy-turvy nighttime adventure about a sick child who follows a cricket into a hidden, miniature world on a quest to help a family of mice make a very specific batch of soup. Matt shares the wild story behind the book's art—drawn entirely with a scented, multi-colored ballpoint pen he found in his kids
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