Bonus Episode - Conversation with Jack Gantos
We had a longer conversation with Jack Gantos at the Nantucket Book Festival - too much to include in Episode 36, our discussion of DEAD END IN NORVELT. Jack talks about his first 36 rejections, his s...
14 Jan 18min
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Writer Jack Gantos has his own unusual take on a childhood in the town named after Eleanor Roosevelt - the real-life place called Norvelt, Pennsylvania. Readers from Belvedere Elementary School in Fal...
7 Jan 24min
Favorite Books from Loyola Village Elementary School
What makes a great book? Readers from Loyola Village Elementary School in Los Angeles have some answers.
31 Dec 20255min
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Sophie's quest to find her mother takes her from London to Paris - mostly rooftop to rooftop. Katherine Rundell's novel "Rooftoppers" is our book this episode. Students from the British International ...
24 Dec 202523min
Bonus Episode - Katherine Marsh
Katherine Marsh says her son helped a lot with the creation of "The Door by the Staircase." She also offers some writing tips.
17 Dec 20256min
Episode 79 -The Door By The Staircase by Katherine Marsh
This week, we get a new look at an old fairy tale – the story of the Russian witch known as Baba Yaga. A boys book club in Portland, Oregon met us at Powell's Books to discuss Katherine Marsh's novel ...
10 Dec 202521min
A Conversation with Sean OBrien
How does a White House speechwriter turn into a writer for kids? How do you become a Washington speech writer to begin with? We speak to Sean O'Brien, former speechwriter to then-Vice President Joe Bi...
3 Dec 202510min
White House Clubhouse by Sean OBrien
Former White House speechwriter Sean O'Brien takes us inside the building to a secret passageway to the past in his mystery "White House Clubhouse." Readers from Oak View Elementary School in Fairfax,...
26 Nov 202527min
