The Growing Readers Podcast
The Children’s Book Review is a resource devoted to children’s literature and literacy. On the Growing Readers Podcast, we produce author and illustrator interviews focused on the best books for kids of all ages to help you grow readers.
“Not every book is for every child, but for every child there is a book.”
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The Growing Readers Podcast
Your favorite author and illustrator, Bob Shea talks about the importance of reading for fun and his latest funny picture book, I Am a Baby.
Julio Torres and Julian Glander, talk about their picture book I Want to Be a Vase. This book makes for an important conversation starter on identity.
WGA-winning and Emmy-nominated comedy writer Glenn Boozan talks about her picture book for adults: There Are Moms Way Worse Than You!
Two amazing guests talk about The Welcoming Library, an initiative that sparks conversations on immigration through the reading of picture books.
In this episode, Aaron Blabey, the #1 New York Times Bestselling Australian author with around 30 million books in print, talks about The Bad Guys movie.
New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale talks about her new picture book, This Is Not For You, and the implications of applying genders to book.
In this episode, Bianca talks with bestselling author Gregory Maguire about his latest novel for kids, Cress Watercress, the fertile imagination behind Wicked.
Multi-award-winning illustrator and author David Litchfield talks about his artwork in Cress Watercress, a novel written by Greogory Maguire.
In this episode, I talk with the one and only John Schu about his debut picture book, This Is a School—a moving celebration of school and all it may signify.
In this episode, I talk with Diana Farid about her coming-of-age novel written in verse, Wave, set in 1980s Southern California about a Persian American girl.