Get Your Wellies On
The Spring rains have arrived and it is time to pull on your Wellies like Christopher Robin and head into the 100 Acre Wood (or your local equivalent). In a podcast conversation on with Chris Lenois of WKVT’s Live & Local, we explore children’s books that take us “into the wild.” Listen to the conversation HERE. ________________________________________________________________ Wildwood (The Wildwood Chronicles Series #I) By Colin Meloy Illustrated by Carson Ellis Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN-13: 9780062024701 Age range: 9 – 12 Years Locate a...
Read MoreSmidgen of Vermont Children’s Lit
Thinking of my hometown this morning as it prepares for the Brattleboro Literary Festival. Curious City spoke with Chris Lenois on WKVT’s Live & Local about A Smidgen of Vermont Children’s Literature. Listen here! There are SO many great children’s book creators in the Green Mountains, but we have SO little time on the show. What did I miss? What Vermont Kids Lit do you love? ___________________________________________________________________________________ Llama Llama Time to Share By Anna Dewdney Published by Penguin Group USA Ages 1-4 Locate a copy at Local...
Read MoreSeparation in Children’s Lit
Separated by miles and miles, but connected through the power of radio, Curious City spoke with Chris Lenois on WKVT’s Live & Local about Separation in Children’s Literature. Listen here! With the school buses again rolling across our cities and towns and first-day-of-school pictures flooding Facebook, it seemed a good time to talk about how children grow with and grow apart from their parents through reading. Below are some of the books we mentioned and some swell resources! What are your favorite back-to-school books? Books on separation? Books where the parents are...
Read MoreChildren’s Lit Live & Local
Pleased as pie to join Chris Lenois on WKVT’s Live & Local to talk about fab summer reads for kids of all ages. Listen here to Curious City’s AM debut and browse the title Chris and I covered below! Snug By Carol Thompson Published by Child’s Play Ages 0-3 Locate a copy at Local Bookstore | Amazon | Library Tough card format, perfect for babies and toddlers. What makes you feel snug? Is it being curled up in a blanket? Feeling safe in your cosy bed? Being at home? Or being given a hug? All sorts of children are compared to all sorts of animals as we look at the...
Read MoreArmored Bears and MP3’s: Curious City Blogging for IRA
Delighted to have been asked to write about my audiobook evangelism for the International Reading Association’s ENGAGE Blog. “Why do I devote each summer to facilitating the experience of listening to young adult audiobooks through the SYNC program? Because audiobooks nearly ruined my summer wedding. True, my evangelism for Listening Library’s production of Philip Pullman’s THE GOLDEN COMPASS was renowned, but the bride should not have to tromp outside to locate her mother alone and wide-eyed in a parked car. A worried rap on the window (was she...
Read MoreFlamethrower at the Ready
Honored to have my article “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” about Angie Smibert’s Memento Nora Project and the need for flamethrowers in children’s book promotion in Hunger Mountain: The VCFA Journal of the Arts. Excerpt “Feeling a bit dystopic these days? On my worst days, I can go from reading the newspaper in the morning to reading a dystopian YA novel in the evening and find comfort only in my foresight—foresight that the world is simply headed along its forecasted fictional trajectory. Between those “end of the...
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