Coming up in OCTOBER on the Children's Book Podcast 🎧 📚 💕 Hannah V. Sawyerr (TRUTH IS), Natasha Khan Kazi (BELA AND LILY), Erin Entrada Kelly (AT LAST SHE STOOD), and Heidi E.Y. Stemple (THE POETRY OF CAR MECHANICS) Available wherever #podcasts are found. 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: J.J. Austrian and Mike Curato (Worm Loves Worm) talk about the impact of two worms falling in love. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/jj-... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod @mikecurato.bsky.social @jjaustrian.bsky.social

Listen Back: Rashin Kheiriyeh shares THE BOOK TREE, authored by Paul Czajak, and STORY BOAT, authored by Kyo Maclear. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Keith Negley, author illustrator of Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too), stops by the podcast to talk about mixed-up emotions, picking five colors and sticking to them, and the memory of not wanting his son to see him cry. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/kei... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Andrea Beaty shares Rosie Revere, Engineer and The Questioneers. Andrea shared how, when searching for words, the right one is the right one. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod @andreabeatyauthor.bsky.social

Listen Back: Hannah Barnaby (Some of the Parts and Wonder Show) talks about having a good sense of humor, trusting the author, and the realization that sometimes what you think you needed is what you needed at all. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/han... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #yalit #ChildrensBkPod

Great listens all throughout September on the Children's Book Podcast 🎧 📚 💕 09/022 - Daniel Nayeri, THE TEACHER OF NOMAD LAND 09/09 - Pam Muñoz Ryan, EL NIÑO 09/16 - Diana Rodriguez Wallach, THE SILENCED 09/23 - Crystal Allen, BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS 09/30 - Katie Yamasaki, MURAL ISLAND

Congratulations to this month's Featured Illustrator Shelley Hanmo. In this interview, Shelley shared how she became an award-winning concert pianist and built a successful journey into illustration for young readers. Learn more about Shelley Hanmo’s work at www.junoniaarts.com.

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Listen Back: Susie Ghahremani (BALANCE THE BIRDS and STACK THE CATS) talks about engaging our youngest readers through simple shapes and eye-catching colors. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod @boygirlparty.bsky.social

Listen Back: Sara Varon, cartoonist of Sweaterweather: & Other Short Stories, talks about signs of being on the right track, her love for stationary, and her trip to the Fumetto Comic Festival. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/sar... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod @saravaron.bsky.social

Listen Back: Author Mariana Llanos and illustrator Anna López Real join Matthew in conversation to share LUCA'S BRIDGE/El puente de Luca. LUCA’S BRIDGE is a border story. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod @marianallanos.bsky.social

Listen Back: Charise Harper and Anna Raff share A Big Surprise for Little Card and talk about thinking with pictures. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/cha... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod @annaraff.bsky.social

Listen Back: Adib Khorram shares DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY. In Adib’s debut novel we meet Darius, a nerdy, overweight, Iranian-American boy who you will love deeply from the outset. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #mglit #yalit #ChildrensBkPod @adibkhorram.bsky.social

Listen Back: James Kennedy shares The Order of Odd-Fish and the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/jam... 📚👍🏽 #mglit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Dallas Hunt shares AWASIS AND THE WORLD-FAMOUS BANNOCK. Awâsis is bringing some of her Kôhkum’s bannock to a relative but she accidentally drops the world-famous bannock off a bridge. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Julie Falatko and Tim Miller share Snappsy The Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/jul... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Daniel Miyares shares Float and talks about the third dimension of picture book making: a willingness to let kids discover. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/dan... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #ChildrensBkPod @danielmiyares.bsky.social

Listen Back: Theresa Thorn and Noah Grigni join to share IT FEELS GOOD TO BE YOURSELF: A BOOK ABOUT GENDER IDENTITY. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Miranda Paul shares LITTLE LIBRARIES, BIG HEROES and her love for Little Free Libraries (LFLs) 📚👍🏽 www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit @mirandapaul.bsky.social

Listen Back: Jess Keating shares Pink is for Blobfish and talks about using all 88 keys to show everything you love about life. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/jes... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social

Listen Back: Sara O’Leary (This is Sadie), talks about creating a fondness to the voice of the narrator, one certain Max, and leaving room within a character to see yourself. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/sar... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit @saraoleary.bsky.social

Listen Back: Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal share FRY BREAD, their picture book. We talk about culture and tradition and family and history. We also talk a lot about Kevin’s Aunt Fannie. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #ChildrensBkPod @juanamartinezn.bsky.social

Listen Back: Illustrator Keith Henry Brown shares BIRTH OF THE COOL, written by Kathleen Cornell Berman about the great jazz legend Miles Davis and his journey to find a sound that was beautifully and uniquely his own. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Madelyn Rosenburg (How to Behave at a Dog Show) talks about the sweet spot of talking to kids, pushing the reset button a lot, and how her stories are helping her figure out what kind of person she wants to be. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/mad... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #podcast #ChildrensBkPod

Listen Back: Ishta Mercurio and Jen Corace share SMALL WORLD, their new picture book. The story circles around Nanda, a girl who dreams of space. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #kidlit #podcast #ChildrensBkPod @ishtamercurio.bsky.social

Listen Back: Celia C. Pérez shares STRANGE BIRDS: A FIELD GUIDE TO RUFFLING FEATHERS. Celia’s sophomore release is about four girls and one hat that bonded them in sororal friendship. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #mglit

Listen Back: Salina Yoon (Be A Friend) talks about wearing your heart on your sleeve, her childhood struggle with reading and writing in English when Korean was the only language spoken at home, and a focus on the universality of art. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/sal... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit

Listen Back: Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic shares THE END OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL. Stephanie’s debut takes on a challenging topic through a compassionate voice. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit

Listen Back: Andy Rash, author illustrator of Archie The Daredevil Penguin, talks about the truth hidden within a joke, how we’re always hardest on ourselves, and that sometimes you can trust your friends. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/and... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit

Listen Back: Tonya Engel shares RISE! FROM CAGED BIRD TO POET OF THE PEOPLE, MAYA ANGELOU, written by Bethany Hegedus, including allowing her stream of consciousness to guide her when creating the art for RISE!. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit

Listen Back: Kwame Alexander talks about the economy of words, the spiritual journey through the white space left on the page, and the joy and power of reading. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/kwa... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit #mglit #poetry

Listen Back: Daria Peoples shares I GOT NEXT. In her sequel to THIS IS IT, Daria explores allyship through a coming-of-age story on a community basketball court. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit

Listen Back: Fred Bowen, author of Out of Bounds, stops by the podcast to talk about dealing with disappointment, the best place for kids to learn to lose, and how sometimes you try your best and it still doesn’t work out for you. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/fre... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #mglit

Listen Back: Raakhee Mirchandani joins the podcast to share SUPER SATYA SAVES THE DAY. When readers meet Satya, the story’s namesake, we have only to take Satya at her word that her beloved cape makes her super. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... 📚👍🏽 #ChildrensBkPod #kidlit

Listen Back: Michelle Schusterman, author of Dead Air: The Kat Sinclair Files (Book #1), talks about how's there's a logical explanation to most things that spook people. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/mic... #kidlit #mglit #podcast

Listen Back: Laurel Snyder and Chuck Groenink share HUNGRY JIM. In this new picture book, a boy awakens to realize that he is a lion... and that he is hungry. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... #kidlit #podcast @laurelsnyder.bsky.social

Listen Back: David Barclay Moore, author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet, stops by the podcast to talk about art's healing ability, Harlem as a symbol for blackness, and being different as an act of resilience. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/dav... #kidlit #mglit #podcast

Listen Back: Hena Khan shares MORE TO THE STORY, a novel is inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and centering on a Pakistani-American family with four daughters: Jameela, Aleeza, Bisma, and Maryam. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... #kidlit #mglit #podcast

Listen Back: Vanessa Brantley-Newton, author and illustrator of Grandma's Purse, talks about connecting with her readers, kids giving their parents a do-over, and the universal quest to give others what you never got. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... #kidlit #podcast

Listen Back: Joyce Wan shares DREAM BIG. This new board book engages our youngest readers with affirming language to take on the world, and it does so through micro-biographies of women who have done exactly that. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... #kidlit #podcast @joycewanbooks.bsky.social

Listen Back: Kristen Kittscher, author of The Tiara on the Terrace, stops by the podcast to talk about creating a surreal world perfectionism gone awry, and how nothing that anyone writes is void of self. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/kri... #kidlit #podcast

Listen Back: Meenal Patel shares PRIYA DREAMS OF MARIGOLDS AND MASALA. In this picture book, a life in India is recounted through an intergenerational connection between Priya and her Babi Ba, her grandmother. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... @meenalpatelstudio.bsky.social #kidlit #podcast

To book creators, bloggers, publishers, educators, others who talk about books: I've compiled a list of tips for talking abt books on Bluesky: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bo... Thanks to all who contributed via my Community Poll thread (link in resource)! #KidLit #BookSky #EduSky

Listen Back: Penny Parker Klostermann (There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight) talks about writing books about things being eaten, finding online writing challenges, and not letting the rhyme rule the book. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/pen...

Listen Back: Karina Yan Glaser shares THE VANDERBEEKERS TO THE RESCUE. The five Vanderbeeker children find themselves in dire circumstances when new pets begin mysteriously arriving at their door. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-... @karinayanglaser.bsky.social

Daria Peoples, author illustrator of Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis (Greenwillow Books), joins Matthew to talk about the hurt and pain of not being accepted. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/close-t... #kidlit #podcast

Learning to adjust to 2 worlds may seem ideal, but I’d consider this as the cause of my imposter syndrome. I never feel like I fit in, my story was too disjointed.Young ppl need to feel like they belong wherever they choose to be without adjusting who they are! pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/08/12/n...

Listen Back: Carson Ellis (Home) talks about making something more than an art book, starting with what she likes to draw, and creating a story she's been thinking her whole life. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/car... #kidlit #podcast

Listen Back: Joanna Rudnick shares STORY AND PICTURES BY, a documentary exploring the power and reach of children's picture books through the lens of three of today's most original authors/illustrators: Mac Barnett, Christian Robinson, and Yuyi Morales. www.matthewcwinner.com/post/listen-...