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The Children's Book Podcast

Oct 29, 2024

Booki Vivat, author and illustrator of Meet Me on Mercer Street (Scholastic Press), talks about the overwhelming sense of unfairness of a childhood friend moving away as well as the eventual understanding that things are a lot more complicated than you know.

Visit Booki online at https://bookivivat.com/

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Oct 22, 2024

Supriya Kelkar, author and illustrator of And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance (Candlewick Press), talks about her middle grade picture book about colonization and the people of the southeastern diaspora.

Visit Supriya online at https://supriyakelkar.com/

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Oct 15, 2024

María Dolores Águila, author Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park (Dial Books), illustrated by Magdalena Mora, talks about the building social capital through a story only we can tell.

Visit María online at https://mariadoloresaguila.com/

You can pick up your own copy of Barrio Rising: The Protest That...


Oct 8, 2024

Wade Hudson and Don Tate, author and illustrator of The Day Madear Voted (Nancy Paulsen Books), talk about fighting for rights and books that save lives.

Visit Wade online at https://justusbooks.com/founders/

Visit Don online at https://www.zettaelliott.com/

You can pick up your own copy of The Day Madear Voted (Nancy...


Oct 1, 2024

Zetta Elliott, author of The Oracle’s Door (Rosetta Press), talks about historical fantasy and explains that if people don’t understand Black history, it might be difficult to understand things going on in our country today.

Visit Zetta online at https://www.zettaelliott.com/

You can pick up your own copy of The...