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Kidlit Love Podcast

A Series of Funny Firsts: CANtaloupe and HoneyDO Bake a Cake with Mike Boldt

April 10, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Mike Boldt about his new picture book: CANtaloupe and HoneyDO Bake a Cake. This is his newest picture book in the Can Do series, a series filled with funny firsts that focus...
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Protecting the Right to Read with Sabrina Baeta & Tasslyn Magnusson of PEN America

April 8, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this bonus episode of the KidLit Love podcast, we’re honoring the right to read with Sabrina Baeta and Tasslyn Magnusson of Pen America.  PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression and champions the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word...
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Celebrating Women’s Voices: She Spoke Too with Kathy MacMillan & Manuela Bernardi

April 7, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Kathy MacMillan and Manuela Bernardi about their books: She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World and She Spoke Too: 14 More Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World. These multi-modal books are both...
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Heart-Warming Horror: It’s Watching by Lindsay Currie

April 3, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Lindsay Currie about her newest middle grade mystery: It’s Watching.  This book is set in a real-life graveyard in Illinois and follows Josie and her friends as they try to land the perfect story for their school newspaper, but get...
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The Intersection of Science & Writing: Whales in the City & Riverkeeper by Nancy Castaldo

March 31, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Nancy Castaldo about her newest releases: Whales in the City and Riverkeeper: Protecting an American River.  Both of these books explore the state of our rivers, particularly the Hudson River in New York, the history behind them and how readers...
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Deliciously Delightful Middle Grade: The Bridget Vanderpuff Series with Martin Stewart & David Habben

March 27, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Martin Stewart and David Habben about the first two titles in their middle grade series: Bridget Vanderpuff and The Baked Escape and Bridget Vanderpuff and The Ghost Train.  These middle grade novels are filled with mystery, mischief and melt-in-your-mouth delights....
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Joyful Creativity: The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella with Sabrina and Eunice Moyle

March 24, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Sabrina and Eunice Moyle about the newest release in their graphic novel chapter book: The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella: Comet Together.  This book is fun, adventurous, humorous, bright, colorful and the ultimate enjoyable reading experience. Astrid and Stella...
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Literature & Mental Health: Octopus Moon with Bobbie Pyron

March 20, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Bobbie Pyron about her newest middle grade book: Octopus Moon.  This novel-in-verse tells the story of a young girl navigating depression at the start of fifth grade. It’s deeply moving and powerful and one many readers are going to keep...
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Creating Fun New Worlds: Mr. Muffins Defender of the Stars with Ben Kahn

March 17, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Ben Khan about their newest middle grade comic: Mr. Muffins Defender of the Stars. According to Publishers Weekly’s starred review, this book is an enchanting space opera in which aliens and humans find common ground despite differing cultures, foods, and...
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A Delightful Perspective: Moving Day with Teri Roche Drobnick

March 13, 2025 in Kidlit Love Podcast
On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Teri Roche Drobnick about her debut picture book: Moving Day.  The book was inspired by the real-life story of moving a 139-year-old, 133-ton Victorian house six blocks and is delightfully told from the house’s perspective. Come listen as Teri shares...
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On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Joanna Ho about her newest picture book: BECOMING BOBA.

This charming picture book celebrates self-love and identity and reminds readers that there is always room for unique flavors in our communities. It’s cute and charming, yet has deeply important messages, too. 

Come listen as we talk about Joanna’s original intent for this picture book, the cultural significance of boba and the important messages of enoughness this book has for readers. 

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Oh, how my heart needed this book. The Midnight L Oh, how my heart needed this book.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig has left me breathless, speechless and hopeful.

Nora is struggling to find worth in herself and in her life and decides to end her time on Earth. But instead of dying as she intended, she’s found herself in the Midnight Library where she can live out every version of her life that could have existed for her had she made a different decision.

As she tries to undo her regrets, both big and small, Nora learns about the path not taken and the multiple versions of herself that exist out there somewhere and just might, in fact, exist inside of her, too.

Filled with pain and heartbreak, beauty and light, this book takes readers on a journey of radical acceptance, a journey that will leave them as a different person than when they started the book.

This book is potent and powerful, heartbreakingly beautiful, filled with existential thoughts and could save your life….or at least how you feel about it.

Whew. This book.

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On this episode of the Get Lit(erate). podcast, we On this episode of the Get Lit(erate). podcast, we’re talking about building a writing habit, one tiny sentence at a time. 

Tiny writing is exactly what it sounds like: tiny micro-moments of writing that focus on the process of writing something nourishing down in the moment. Small moments, small sentences, even small notebooks can be just the thing you need to kick-off a writing habit and reap all of the benefits.

Come listen as I explore what tiny writing is, convince you why you need to give it a try and share ten ways you could start a tiny writing practice today. 

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Do you need a reminder of why we need to reach for Do you need a reminder of why we need to reach for our dreams, cast our fears aside and live life like it’s the last night we have?

This book is that reminder: If Tomorrow Never Comes by Allison Ashley.

It’s the eve of Nora’s bone marrow transplant and she’s headed out to enjoy her last night before entering the hospital…which could also be her last night ever.

An overheard conversation catapults her into the night of her life and perhaps the love of her life, too. Sadly, she slips away to start her new journey and leaves the man she left behind reeling.

Fast forward a year later and Nora is doing well, ready to start her new, healthy life. When she runs into Jamie from that night, she’s elated….until she realizes he is her donor’s boyfriend.

What comes next is a beautiful, emotional (and very ironic!) story told in alternating perspectives that prompts the reader to ask themselves so many questions: What do we want? What are we willing to leave behind? When will we let ourselves enjoy what might be waiting for us?

Oh, this book has my heart.

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On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m On this episode of the KidLit Love podcast, I’m talking with Brittany Pomales about her debut picture book: It Started with a P.

This is a hilarious, alliterative read aloud where a young king decides on the morning of his birthday that everything with the letter P must go. 

Come listen as we talk about Brittany’s journey to her debut picture book, the art of writing funny books for kids, her KidLit HaHa Week and the little surprises readers will find in the books. It’s a delightful conversation to match her delightful book.

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Books make Mondays better! I'm FINALLY reading th Books make Mondays better!

I'm FINALLY reading the book that so many of you have raved about and now I know why:

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

What if there was a library between life and death? What if the books you read there could undo the regrets you have in your life and move you into the perfect life? 

Oh, these are beautiful questions to ponder on a Monday morning. 

What books are making your Monday better?

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