The Children's Book Podcast
Matthew C. Winner
Celebrating the power of storytelling to reflect our world, expand our perspectives, and foster connections between readers of all ages. The Children's Book Podcast features interviews with authors, illustrators, and everyone involved in taking a book from drawing board to bookshelf. Hosted by Matthew C. Winner, a teacher, librarian, writer, and fan of kids. Brought to you in partnership with Boyds Mills, positively impacting kids by amplifying the voices of storytellers who inform, educate, and inspire children to become their best selves.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Dec 11, 2015 • 47min
Zack Giallongo RETURNS!
Zack Giallongo (@Zackules), cartoonist of Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents: Romeo & Juliet, stops by the podcast to talk about snowmen versus talking rocks, contributing to the Ewoks mythology, and the Galaxy of Super Adventure! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Dec 8, 2015 • 35min
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt (@animalopoeia), author of Cat Says Meow, stops by the podcast to talk about starting with a circle and some nondescript blobs, letting the letters create an animal, and the fact that letters are just shapes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Dec 7, 2015 • 45min
Gus Gordon
Gus Gordon (@IllustratorGus), author of Herman and Rosie, stops by the podcast to talk about ideas starting at the sketch stage, drawings that ask lots of questions, and two characters that need to find one another. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Dec 5, 2015 • 41min
Ellen Fischer
Ellen Fischer, author of If an Elephant Went to School, stops by the podcast to talk about getting into a good writing group, editing to make a story stronger, and asking "what if?" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Dec 1, 2015 • 58min
Kris Remenar and Matt Faulkner
Kris Remenar (@RemenarReads) and Matt Faulkner (@MattFaulkner1), author and illustrator of Groundhog's Dilemma, stop by the podcast to talk about treating the process like a business partnership, a writer who can write to the child in us all, and how the best revenge is living well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Nov 27, 2015 • 42min
Steven Malk RETURNS!
Steve Malk (@stevenmalk), literary agent at Writers House, returns to the podcast to talk about connections on a deeper level, the surreal feeling of seeing books on a bookstore shelf that you helped get published, and 20 years of representing talented folks working in children's literature. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Nov 24, 2015 • 41min
Grace Lin
Grace Lin (@pacylin), author of Ling & Ting: Together in All Weather, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and Dim Sum for Everyone, stops by the podcast to talk about seeing herself in books, sharing stories from her childhood, and the final book in her outstanding easy reader series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Nov 23, 2015 • 33min
David Fulk
David Fulk (@DavidFulkWrites), author of Raising Rufus, stops by the podcast to talk about discovering your inner hero, exploring in the woods, and planners and pantsers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Nov 20, 2015 • 41min
Adam Lehrhaupt and Matthew Forsythe
Adam Lehrhaupt (@Lehrhaupt) and Matthew Forsythe (@mattforsythe), author and illustrator respectively behind Please, Open This Book!, stop by the podcast to talk about keeping everything in tact and in the service of the story, leaving white space in the writing, and thinking of books sonically. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
Nov 17, 2015 • 46min
Alexis Frederick-Frost
Alexis Frederick-Frost (@afrederickfrost), contributing cartoonist to Gryphons Aren't So Great, the newest story in the Adventures in Cartooning series, stops by the podcast to talk about bonding over ping pong, how it takes a stronger writer to write a shorter story, and empowering kids to tell their stories through simple pictures. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message
