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The Children's Book Podcast

Apr 5, 2024

Kate DiCamillo shares Ferris (Candlewick), a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up.

Visit Kate online at https://www.katedicamillo.com/

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Mar 6, 2024

Rajani LaRocca shares Mirror to Mirror (Quill Tree Books), an evocative novel in verse  about identical twin sisters who do everything together--until external pressures threaten to break them apart.

Visit Rajani online at https://www.rajanilarocca.com

You can pick up your own copy of Mirror to Mirror wherever books are...


Apr 4, 2023

Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki share Seen and Unseen, an important work of nonfiction featuring powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers--Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams--along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history.

 

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Jan 3, 2023

Torrey Maldonado shares HANDS, a story about Trevor, a twelve-year-old who is a gifted comic-book artist, a good student, and would do anything to protect his mom and sisters.

NOTABLE QUOTES:

(6:19) “I wrote this book for lots of kids who feel alone and feel that they have to solve their problems by themselves,...