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The Children's Book Podcast

Mar 18, 2025

Kyle Lukoff, author of A World Worth Saving (Dial Books), joins Matthew to talk about his classic quest story involving a golem that protects trans kids.

Visit Kyle Lukoff online at www.kylelukoff.com 

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Mar 15, 2025

Lesléa Newman (Joyful Song: A Naming Story) shares what is giving her hope today: being in community with like-minded people who want to make the world a better place.

This is a new miniseries of indefinite length in which I invite my friends from the kidlit community to share what is giving them hope today. 

For a...


Mar 11, 2025

Veera Hiranandani, author of Many Things at Once (Random House Studio), illustrated by Nadia Alam, joins Matthew to talk about feeling complex things and learning how not to get stuck in those feelings.

Visit Veera Hiranandani online at www.veerahiranandani.com

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Mar 4, 2025

George Brown and Alison Green Myers, of the Highlights Foundation, join Matthew to introduce a partnership between the Highlights Foundation and the Children’s Book Podcast.

Visit the Highlights Foundation online at www.highlightsfoundation.org  

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Feb 25, 2025

Greg Foley, cartoonist of Dex Dingo: World's Best Greatest Ever Inventor (Disney Hyperion), talks about comics as a proper art form and how, at the heart, we’re all kids who don’t really understand anything.

Visit Greg online at www.gregfoley.co

You can pick up your own copy of Dex Dingo: World's Best Greatest Ever...