We talk about children's literature, kidlit, all age comic books, movies and more.
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Just reading children's books
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These are the books that I have loved reading to Henry.
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Our family loves to read we started this podcast so that we can share our passion with everyone and bring the choicest children's books to you. Come read with us.
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This is the place for bibiophiles to meet and quiz their literary heroes. It’s a fun listen full of passionate young readers asking their favourite authors brilliantly insightful questions
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As parents, we want to instill messages in our children’s mind that they will remember forever. Those messages are the values and keys to life they will carry with them into the real world. Did you know that children’s books can be used as a tool to raise good humans? To have conversations with our kids that matter most? Join us on this journey as we spotlight talented authors and their beautiful books. Books that act as tools to create dialogue and bond with our children. Learn how to walk ...
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Interviews with authors of children's literature about their new books
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How do you know a good book when you see it? What books are really worth reading? The purpose of this conversation is to help mothers and fathers identify books that will liberate their children to embrace truth, goodness, and beauty. We’ll be pondering questions of life and lifestyle as we seek to become people who live deeply and read deeply, drawing our children into the adventure of reading and living.
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Here you will fine many episodes of different children books. Hope you enjoy! Cover art photo provided by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@helloimnik
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We Make Children’s Books is a podcast that invites you to step into the creative minds of children’s book authors and artists. Each episode takes listeners on a journey through the imaginative process of bringing stories to life for young readers. From the initial spark of an idea to the final illustrations, this podcast explores the unique and often surprising ways that authors and artists craft their stories. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or simply a lover of children’s literature, We ...
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Treasure Box Books | Dads Building Relationships, Reading Great Books, Preparing Children for Life
Nathan Ching | Christian Homeschool Dad, Lover of Good Books
⚔️ Do you long to inspire your children with stories of heroes in history and with the greatest story ever told--the word of God? 🛠️ Do you want to equip your children for life in the world, so that they’ll have wisdom and understanding as they face the challenges in whatever work God calls them to? 👨👩👧👦 Do you desire to live and learn together with your family, using good books and real-life experiences to build relationships that will last a lifetime? In this podcast, you’ll find real-l ...
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A podcast featuring Hilda Mary reading from great books and classic literature for kids. Occasionally, books with specifically Christian themes will be featured; these will be noted as such in the description.
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Daughter of two DJs, wife, and mother of two, I had an idea—I’m going to record myself reading children’s books! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liana-rodriguez/support
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On Monsters, Goddesses and Myths: A Discussion with Author Katherine Marsh
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“We’re not monsters, Mom. We’re goddesses—smart, fearless, and beautiful.” That’s the voice of Ava, the superpowered protagonist of Katherine Marsh’s captivating novel for children, Medusa (Clarion Books, 2024). Our discussion focuses on Marsh’s feminist retelling of the Medusa myth—and on the wider topic of the direction of children’s literature a…
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The Otherwoods is LGBTQ acceptance in sheep-horror clothing. It’s not scary enough for the later, yet aims the book’s jacket at that audience.
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Laura Bower, "The Imposter" (Gnome Road Publishing, 2024)
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In this heartwarming interview with Laura Bower, we celebrate the launch of her brand new, debut picture book, The Imposter, illustrated by Kerisa Greene, and published by Sandra Sutter, Gnome Road Publishing (2024). Laura talks about her life and writing career, the story behind The Imposter, and her advice for aspiring authors. Learn more about y…
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Do your kids read fantasy? What do you think of magic? Is magic good? Bad? Join Charity as she considers why fantasy is such an important category of fiction to read! Perhaps, like Aslan, fantasy is "not safe, but good." Discover great fantasy books for your child: The Great Fantasy Book List (pdf) Purchase The Great Fantasy Book List through Brigh…
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035 | Rejoice in Jesus' Victory
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Hey Dads, What are your plans for this Resurrection Sunday? Are you helping your family rejoice in Jesus’ victory over death? In this episode, we first explore what Christ’s death and resurrection mean for us today, then list ideas for Scriptures, books, music, and more to help your family celebrate the true meaning of this Easter season. He is ris…
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EidTale: An Eid al-Fitr Adventure continues the approachable excellence of the Abrams Trail Tale book series in a non-secular manner.
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Fantasy Sports 1: The Court of Souls is a large format graphic novel that ensnares manga, sports, action and humor readers all within its web.
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Michelle Knudsen, "Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten" (Candlewick Press, 2024)
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Michelle Knudsen is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for young readers of all ages, including the award-winning picture books (and personal favorites) Library Lion and Marilyn's Monster. In this, our second interview we celebrate the launch of her new picture book, Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten (Candlewick, 2024),…
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Shoshanna Lockshin and Efrayim Unterman, "The Devash Megillat Esther" (Hadar Press, 2024)
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The Devash Megillat Esther (Hadar Press, 2024) includes the full Hebrew Megillah text, an original kid-friendly English translation, and carefully selected commentaries from 2,000 years of Jewish tradition brought to life in newly accessible ways. Devash unlocks sophisticated texts for learners of all ages and backgrounds, encouraging deep question…
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Dia de Disfraces is a charming illustrated book in Spanish about dressing up and being yourself, even when others aren’t with you.
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034 | This Is My Father's World - Part 1
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Hey Dads, We believe that God created the natural world . . . but how often do we get out in it? And are we leading our children to learn about nature as a way of growing their faith in the Creator? Tune in today to learn why and how nature stories can be an important part of your family culture and education. --Nathan Why should we as Christian da…
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The Museum on the Moon is STEM based poetry that won’t put kids to sleep. It will make their minds think and eyes wonder about the possibilities.
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Sue Fliess, "Octopus Acrobatics" (Albert Whitman & Company, 2024)
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Sue Fliess ("fleece") is the award-winning, bestselling author of over 50 children's books including Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket, How to Trap a Leprechaun, Mary Had a Little Lab, Rumble and Roar, the Beatrice Bly's Rules for Spies series, the Kid Scientist series, the Magical Creatures and Crafts series, and many Little Golden Books. Her books h…
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Emily Barth Isler, "The Color of Sound" (Carolrhoda Books, 2024)
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Emily Barth Isler is the author of AfterMath, an award-winning middle grade novel, and of the forthcoming picture book Always Enough Love. In our interview, we celebrate the publication of her second middle grade novel, The Color of Sound (Carolrhoda Books, 2024), the story of Rosie, a musical prodigy with synesthesia. We talk about her transformat…
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(Episode 7): Kamila Król's Rusalka: Unveiling Slavic Mythology
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#KamilaKról #Rusalka #SlavicMythology #GraphicNovel #AwardWinningIllustrator #ChildrensBooks #FolkloreArt #DreamlikeTales #Storycomic #IllustratorInsights #MythicalStories #ArtAndMyth #CreativeProcess #PigeonMakesArt #VisualStorytelling Step into the mystical world of children's literature in this captivating episode of We Make Children's Books. Yo…
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033 | Where Do You Find Good Books?
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Hey Dads, You want to stock your family’s bookshelves with great books, but your time (and likely your budget) are limited. With so many millions of books to choose from and seemingly thousands of possible places to buy them, how do you decide where to look? Listen in for twelve of our favorite book sources. I'll also share some of the treasures we…
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The Real Story is a sublime illustrated book that uses its intelligence and creativity to be funny, really laugh-out-loud funny for ages three and up. Youtube The original post on Daddy Mojo
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A Chat with a Children's Book Illustrator: Erin Kraan
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Erin Kraan has illustrated over half a dozen children's books, with more on the way. In our interview we celebrate her latest illustrated picture book, Buffalo Fluffalo (Random House Studio, 2024) written by Bess Kalb. Erin talks about her life and career, and explains her unique process of carving her characters into wood and seeing how their quir…
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Episode 146: 10 Dogs adds up to a very clever and enjoying sibling that’s more than a counting book
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10 Dogs is a counting book in that it adds to 10 in various ways that will make kids laugh, smile, grin, and notice small details, with dogs.
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Suzanne Slade, "The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue" (Astra, 2021)
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Suzanne Slade is the Sibert Honor author of more than 170 books for children. A mechanical engineer by degree, Suzanne writes about STEM topics, fascinating figures in history, and occasionally lyrical fiction. Her newest books include Some Days are Yellow, Shining Star: Vera Rubin Discovers Dark Matter, Behold the Octopus!, and Dazzilin' Dolly: Th…
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Tell Me About Space is the smart, STEM board book that you wanted to be read to you when you were two-years old.
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The Things We Miss is mglit that brings in just enough science-fiction to the genre before they realize that it’s realistic fiction that they’ll enjoy as much, if not more.
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Can You Catch Me? is a sublime example of less-is-more when it comes to making an illustrated book engaging and fun for ages 3-6.
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Above the Trenches is a graphic novel with dozens of characters, and country-spanning action, that manages to make people appreciate history.
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032 | Read Interesting and Inspiring Books Together
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Hey Dads, What books might your child (especially those around the preteen years) enjoy reading alone or with the family--books that could both entertain and encourage them in their Christian faith? In this episode my favorite daughter joined me for a conversation about an inspiring story she read recently, how we have weekly Daddy Times, favorite …
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Heather L. Montgomery, "Sick!: The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Heather L. Montgomery writes for kids who are wild about animals, masterfully employing yuck appeal to engage young minds. Her 17 nonfiction books include Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill, What's in your Pocket? Collecting Nature's Treasures, and Bugs Don't Hug: Six Legged Parents and their Kids. Here we celebrate Heather's brand new book…
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The Sinister Secrets of Singe is mglit that could’ve benefitted from more action, fewer tropes and a haircut before planning the series.
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(Episode 6): Illustrating Dreams: An Insightful Chat with Anoosha Syed
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#WeMakeChildrensBooks #AnooshaSyed #ChildrensBookIllustration #CharacterDesign #FreelanceIllustrator #ArtisticAdvice #CreativeJourney #IllustrationTips #Storycomic #KidsBooksArt #IllustratorLife #DrawingForKids #VisualStorytelling #InspiringArtists #CreativeProcess Dive into the colorful world of children's literature with host Barney Smith from St…
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Alterations is a graphic novel that humorously shows middle school and how its inhabitants view it and the world around them.
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Reading Man's Search for Meaning
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Charity and her 11th grade students read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl along with Robert Spaemann's address "Education as an Introduction to Reality" as part of Texas Holocaust remembrance week. Charity shares a speech she gave to the high school, generated from reading these texts together. Read Robert Spaemann's article "Education as …
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Are You Big? is picture book fun and glory all about size and scale that will delight ages three and up with happy art and simple text.
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Scientist of Faith profiles 28 thinkers who changed the world for the better and lets you know just a snippet about their faith in various religions.
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This Little Engineer: A Think-and-do-Primer is a board book that makes crawlers through 2nd grade think, but also clears up the vague definition of “what is an engineer?”
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Get Signed: A Chat with Literary Agent Lucinda Halperin
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Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with over 15 years’ experience in both the publicity and agency sides of publishing. Before founding Lucinda Literary, she worked in the Publicity division of HarperCollins, where she assisted on the media campaign for Freakonomics among other New York Times bestsellers. She currently represents authors writing i…
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Quest Kids and the Dark Prophecy of Doug blends comic-style art and quickly-paced text for a mglit series that spans elementary and middle school.
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031 | Read the Old Testament
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Hey Fellow Dads, Have you ever wondered if the Old Testament is really relevant for today? Is it worth studying with and reading to our families, or should we “unhitch” ourselves from the O.T. and focus only on the New? Today we ask ten questions about the Old Testament—and find the answers mostly in the New Testament. Aloha, Nathan Outline 💡 For a…
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Our 14-year-old saw Bob Marley: One Love. What does a typical middle-school person think about the film? His thoughts might surprise you.
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Laurie Wallmark and Raakhee Mirchandani, "Journey to the Stars: Kalpana Chawla, Astronaut" (Beaming Books, 2024)
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Laurie Wallmark is the award-winning author of picture book biographies of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) as well as fiction. In our second interview, we celebrate Laurie's new picture book, Journey to the Stars: Kalpana Chawla, Astronaut, co-written with Raakhee Mirchandani, illustrated by Maitreyi Ghosh (Illustrator) ,…
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(Episode 5): Elizabeth Hart: Weaving Magic in ’Before the Fairy Ball
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#ElizabethHart #BeforeTheFairyBall #ChildrensBooks #StorycomicPresents #AustralianAuthors #FairyTales #KidsLiterature #ParentingAndReading #CreativeWriting #ASDRepresentation #FibromyalgiaAwareness #StorytellingMagic #FamilyStories #IllustratedBooks #EmergingAuthors #BookLovers #ReadWithKids #LiteraryJourney #InspiringAuthors #FamilyBondingThroughB…
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The Bellwoods Game is mglit that pairs illustrations with a great heel and an urban ghost story that lives in every neighborhood for an age-appropriately scary and spooky time.
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030 | Secure Your Own Mask First
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Hey Dads, As Christian dads, we long for our children to follow God’s path with joy-filled hearts. We pray they will delight in God Himself. But is there something we need to make sure we ourselves are doing first? In Ep. 30, my longtime friend Jonathan Ballou talks with me about how we as dads need to “secure our own mask first” to guide our famil…
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Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.
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My Friends Maurice Sendak and Leonard Bernstein
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Christopher Swann is an award-winning producer and director of documentaries, a playwright, author and editor. In our lively interview we discuss his career, his thoughts on creativity, his friendship with two legendary geniuses: author-illustrator Maurice Sendak, and composer conductor Leonard Bernstein, and the monumental films which these friend…
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Rebecca Gardyn Levington, "Afikoman, Where'd You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure" (Rocky Pond Books, 2024)
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In this wonderfully candid conversation with children's book author Rebecca Gardyn Levington, we celebrate her new book Afikoman, Where'd You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure from Rocky Pond Books (2024) and illustrated by Noa Kelner. This is her third published picture book (her previous books are Brainstorm! and Whatever Comes Tomorrow), w…
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Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.
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029 | Care for Multiple Generations in Your Family
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Hey Dads, Do you have certain books that are so good you want everyone in your family to experience them? If you have multiple children in different age brackets, it’s easy to assume that what you’ve shared with one, they all should know. How do we record and remember our reading so that no one misses out on their part of the feast? Tune in today a…
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Plague-Busters! Is an entry gate, heavily illustrated, entertaining chapter book with humor and science on the planet’s deadliest diseases.
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The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is the charming story about a club that teaches siblings of parents the ways of how to be cool to nieces and nephews.
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Schnozzer & Tatertoes: Shoot the Moon! establishes itself as one of the big dogs in elementary school graphic novels.
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Monsters Never Get Haircuts has the potential to be your pre-k kid’s favorite book. The art is awesome, the text is brief and the story is very funny.
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