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The Children's Book Podcast

The Children's Book Podcast

Matthew C. Winner

Exploring big ideas and the way that stories can help us feel seen, understood, and valued. The Children's Book Podcast features insightful and sincere interviews with authors, illustrators, and everyone involved in taking a book from drawing board to bookshelf. Hosted by a teacher and school librarian, each episode seeks to connect kids and listeners of all ages to powerful, impactful, and lasting stories, and the people who tell them.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Children's Book Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Children's Book Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Children's Book Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Children's Book Podcast - Aaron Starmer

Aaron Starmer

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03/27/15 • 41 min

Aaron Starmer (@aaronstamer), author of The Whisper (@fsgbooks), the sequel to 2014's The Riverman, stops by to talk about competing narratives, building suspense, and world-building in the fantasy genre.

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The Children's Book Podcast - Our Differences Are a Good Thing with Tiffany Jewell
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07/20/23 • 21 min

Tiffany Jewell shares The Antiracist Kid, a book that teaches young children the words, language, and methods to recognize racism and injustice--and what to do when they encounter it at home, at school, and in the media they watch, play, and read.

BOOK DESCRIPTION: The Antiracist Kid: A Book about Identity, Justice, and Activism by Tiffany Jewell; illustrations by Nicole Miles

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell, with art by Eisner-nominated illustrator Nicole Miles, The Antiracist Kid is the essential illustrated guide to antiracism for empowering the young readers in your life!

What is racism? What is antiracism? Why are both important to learn about? In this book, systemic racism and the antiracist tools to fight it are easily accessible to young readers.

In three sections, this must-have guide explains:

Identity: What it is and how it applies to you

Justice: What it is, what racism has to do with it, and how to address injustice

Activism: A how-to with resources to be the best antiracist kid you can be

This book teaches young children the words, language, and methods to recognize racism and injustice--and what to do when they encounter it at home, at school, and in the media they watch, play, and read.

NOTABLE QUOTES:

(5:07) “Anti-racism is making a choice to be active and resist racism.”

(6:58) “All of those questions have been questions that real kids have asked me over time, my own students, my own kids, kids I've come across, worked with my friend's kids.

So, when I look at certain questions, I am picturing very specific people.”

(7:19) “It's a book I wanted in my classroom, but never had. I want it in my home. And now it can be.”

(10:53) “With my friends, we have similarities that brought us together. But then it's the things that make us different that keep our friendships going. Otherwise, I think we'd get bored with each other.”

(12:14) “Sometimes we don't feel like family, but we can be friends. And I think that's really important, too. And we don't even have to be friends. We just have to know that other people exist and we're not the same.”

(13:57) “All of the things that made us different, made us a whole community.”

(14:37) “The thing that makes us really special is we're all really different and we know how to be together and get along even though we're different.”

(15:31) “I love not just teaching kids new things, but I love when the adults have those a-ha moments, too.”

(19:22) “There's always some grownup who is there, ready to listen and redistribute some power. Cuz we got you and we trust you to move us along in a direction that is like more liberatory and anti-racist than where we are now.”

ADDITIONAL LINKS:

TALK ABOUT THE EPISODE:

  1. What are words that you use to describe yourself? What words, attributes, characteristics, interests, practices, and observations make up your identity? Which of these things are describers that someone might notice just from seeing you for the first time? Which are things that take time to know? Or may be things about yourself and your identity that you keep private from others?
  2. What does justice look like? Can you think of any times when you have witnessed injustice, whether at school or on the news or in your community? What are ways that you might respond to these incidents of injustice? Who are people you could share with or work with in order to bring about positive change?
  3. Tiffany shared that this book was formed around many, many questions she received from readers and students. What question(s) do you have about identity, justice, activism, and/or antiracism?

CREDITS:

This podcast episode of The Children’s Book Podcast was written, edited, and produced by Matthew Winner. For a full transcript of this episode, visit matthewcwinner.com.

Write to me or send me a message at [email protected].

Our podcast logo was created by Duke Stebbins (https://stebs.design/).

Our music is by Podington Bear....

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The Children's Book Podcast - (Worth Noting) On the Topic of Mass Shootings
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07/16/22 • 11 min

In the first 6 months of 2022 alone, there have been over 250 mass shootings in America—in schools, at grocery stores, in churches, and as people were going about their everyday lives. No matter how sad and scary they are to talk about, these mass shootings are Worth Noting. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
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The Children's Book Podcast - (Worth Noting) Unplugging from Tech (A Kids Mindful Moment)
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01/22/22 • 12 min

Introducing A Kids Mindful Moment, supporting healthy minds, bodies, and spirits. In this preview, we share “Unplugging from Tech”, a situational meditation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
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The Children's Book Podcast - Theresa Thorn and Noah Grigni

Theresa Thorn and Noah Grigni

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08/31/19 • 46 min

Theresa Thorn (@theresathorn) and Noah Grigni join to share IT FEELS GOOD TO BE YOURSELF: A BOOK ABOUT GENDER IDENTITY. There are more conversations about gender going on than perhaps ever before, but there are also lots and lots of adults and kids alike who are not quite sure exactly how to talk about gender. In Theresa and Noah’s debut picture book, readers meet four different children who each identify differently from one another in terms of gender. The narrator introduces each child by sharing how that child identifies now and how that may have changed, then the narrator provides language to help describe each of these varying gender identities. As we discuss in the conversation, the narrator is that of a guide and onlooker with us, the readers, but the narrator also uses lots of non-definitive language in order to help communicate the fluidity and varied nature of gender identity. Theresa puts it best when she says, “We all have a sense of gender that belongs to us”. I hope that you, dear listener, find that there is space for you in this conversation as well. And for your students, your friends, and your family members. You can access even more information about this book and its author by visiting www.matthewcwinner.com/podcast. Thank you to this week's sponsors: Libro.fm Storyteller Academy And to the generous support from our Patrons. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
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The Children's Book Podcast - Tina and Carson Kugler

Tina and Carson Kugler

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03/17/15 • 40 min

Tina and Carson Kugler (@tinatheatre and @CarsonKugler), creator of the In Mary's Garden (@HMHkids), stop by to talk about "the witch's house", an artist who worked in found and recycled materials long before upcycling become trendy, and not trying to control the whole process.

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The Children's Book Podcast - James Kochalka

James Kochalka

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03/12/15 • 42 min

James Kochalka (@GlorkAcademy), creator of the Glorkian Warrior graphic novel series including the newest title, The Glorkian Warrior Eats Adventure Pie (@01FirstSecond), as well as the Johnny Boo and Dragon Puncher graphic novel series (@TopShelfComix), stops by to talk about his term as the Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, a sentient backpack that shoots lasers, and how "stupid" is not a big deal.

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The Children's Book Podcast - Kate Messner

Kate Messner

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03/06/15 • 36 min

Kate Messner (@KateMessner), author of the Ranger in Time series (@Scholastic) and Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt (@ChronicleKids), illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal, stops by to talk about her secret wish of time travel, considering golden retreivers throughout time, the "What else?" that makes the illustrations in her new picture book so outstanding, and connecting authors and classrooms through Skype.

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The Children's Book Podcast - Christian Robinson

Christian Robinson

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03/03/15 • 37 min

Christian Robinson, illustrator of Last Stop on Market Street (@Penguinkids) by Matt De La Pena, Gaston (@SimonKids) by Kelly DiPucchio, and Josephine (@ChronicleKids) by Patrcia Hruby Howell, stops by to talk about the art of fun, trusting the process, desigining illustrations to bring himself the most joy.

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The Children's Book Podcast - Laura Shovan

Laura Shovan

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04/21/17 • 42 min

Laura Shovan (@LauraShovan), author and poet of The Last 5th Grade of Emerson Elementary, stops by the podcast to talk about classrooms as small communities, tuning an ear to what's working well, and her mission to get poems taught in every school. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
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How many episodes does The Children's Book Podcast have?

The Children's Book Podcast currently has 873 episodes available.

What topics does The Children's Book Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Education For Kids, Kids & Family and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on The Children's Book Podcast?

The episode title 'Laurel Snyder and Chuck Groenink' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Children's Book Podcast?

The average episode length on The Children's Book Podcast is 38 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Children's Book Podcast released?

Episodes of The Children's Book Podcast are typically released every 3 days, 22 hours.

When was the first episode of The Children's Book Podcast?

The first episode of The Children's Book Podcast was released on Jul 2, 2013.

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