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Cabin Head and Tree Head: Best Promotional Video for a Children’s Book of 2025?
Come for the wacky promotional video for one of the greatest graphic novels of 2025. Stay for the celebrity picture book cameo at the very end.
Never Seen THAT Before! A Talk with Millie von Platen About Her Zohran Mamdani Book
It may be a one-of-a-kind picture book, at least in the history of American publishing. A picture book about a mayoral candidate put out by a major publisher? How did this happen?
2026 Newbery/Caldecott Fall Prediction Edition
Our penultimate prediction post before final considerations. Here are the titles I think have the best show at the two major literary awards. Do you agree? Disagree? Find out!
Tackling Topics with Integrity and Heart: A Cover Reveal and Q&A with Kao Kalia Yang and Seo Kim
Seems to me the more books we can devise that confront racism, the better. But how do you confront a hate crime in a picture book? Today's title does precisely that.
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Max’s Dragon Shirt by Rosemary Wells
Our first Rosemary Wells on the podcast? How is this even possible? We meet Max & Ruby for the first time and have a LOT to say on the matter.
No Pain, No Shame, No Fear of Death: ND Stevenson Discusses the Incalculably Fantastic Scarlet Morning
A childhood manuscript makes good. ND Stevenson discusses the origins of his debut middle grade fantasy while I fall over myself trying to get you to read it.
A Steven Weinberg! A Q&A! A Cover Reveal! And a Special Secret Guest?!? We Discuss I Am the Mountain
Is it too early to start calling Caldecott 2027 contenders? That's not an idle question since today we're talking to Steven Weinberg about a book that, honestly? You're going to need to see this thing.
Cover Reveal and Q&A: Carole Lindstrom Presents RED RIVER ROSE
A picture book character returns to us in a middle grade novel. Though it's not out until March 2026, we talk with Carole Lindstrom into her new foray into older fiction for kids.
The Picture Book to Novel Transition: Carole Lindstrom Presents RED RIVER ROSE and We Reveal the Cover
A picture book character returns to us in a middle grade novel. Though it's not out until March 2026, we talk with Carole Lindstrom about her new foray into older fiction for kids.
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