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An Interview with Rachel Orr
Jun 13, 2026
42m 39s
Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jun 4, 2026
40m 04s
An Interview with Senior Literary Agent Stephen Fraser
May 23, 2026
52m 15s
María Dolores Águila, "A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez" (Roaring Brook Press, 2025)
May 5, 2026
38m 21s
David McMullin, "Rock 'N' Roll, Baby!" (Random House, 2026)
May 2, 2026
46m 08s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/13/26 | ![]() An Interview with Rachel Orr✨ | children's publishingauthor representation+4 | Rachel Orr | Prospect AgencyHarperCollins Children’s Books+1 | PittsburghHoboken, New Jersey | children's literaturepublishing+4 | — | 42m 39s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)✨ | nursery rhymeschildren's literature+3 | Mary R. Lanni | BloomsburyLibraries Unlimited+2 | Denver, Colorado, USA | nursery rhymeschildren's literature+4 | — | 40m 04s | |
| 5/23/26 | ![]() An Interview with Senior Literary Agent Stephen Fraser✨ | literary agencychildren's literature+3 | Stephen Fraser | The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency | — | literary agentchildren's books+3 | — | 52m 15s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() María Dolores Águila, "A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez" (Roaring Brook Press, 2025)✨ | children's literaturemiddle grade books+4 | María Dolores Águila | Roaring Brook Press | — | A Sea of Lemon TreesMaría Dolores Águila+5 | — | 38m 21s | |
| 5/2/26 | ![]() David McMullin, "Rock 'N' Roll, Baby!" (Random House, 2026)✨ | children's literaturemusic+3 | David McMullin | Random HouseRandom House Books for Young Readers+1 | — | children's booksmusic+5 | — | 46m 08s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Vidhya & Parani, "O Dharmaputri!: Indian Heart, Yogic Wings" (Garuda Prakashan, 2025)✨ | Indian wisdomparenting+3 | VidhyaParani | Garuda Prakashan | MumbaiManchester | Indian HeartYogic Wings+5 | — | 50m 06s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() John Masiulionis, "Walking Each Other Home – Zachary’s Mission: A Hospice for Children" (Trolley Stop Publishing, 2026)✨ | children's literaturehospice care+4 | John Masiulionis | Trolley Stop PublishingThe Children's Books Spotlight Series+1 | San Diego | children's hospicepicture book+4 | — | 46m 54s | |
| 4/6/26 | ![]() Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity: A Conversation with Miriam Udel✨ | Yiddish literaturechildren's literature+3 | Miriam Udel | Yiddish children’s literature | — | Yiddishchildren's literature+3 | — | 58m 18s | |
| 4/4/26 | ![]() Nancy Hudgins, "Books Good Enough for You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom" (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2026)✨ | children's literatureauthor interview+4 | Nancy Hudgins | Abrams Books for Young ReadersBooks Good Enough for You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom | — | children's booksUrsula Nordstrom+4 | — | 41m 18s | |
| 3/7/26 | ![]() Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)✨ | globalizationcultural adaptation+3 | Tamara Kay | Sesame WorkshopOxford UP+1 | United Statesfifty countries+2 | Sesame Streetcultural politics+3 | — | 45m 46s | |
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| 2/18/26 | ![]() Kristine A. Lombardi, "Crouton: One Cat's Adoption Tale" (Random House, 2026)✨ | children's literaturecat adoption+4 | Kristine A. Lombardi | Random HouseCrouton: One Cat's Adoption Tale+4 | — | children's bookscat stories+3 | — | 40m 03s | |
| 2/13/26 | ![]() Leila Sales, "The Museum of Lost and Found" (Harry N. Abrams, 2023)✨ | children's literatureauthor interview+3 | Leila Sales | Kar-Ben PublishingLerner Publishing Group+7 | — | Leila SalesThe Museum of Lost and Found+3 | — | 50m 17s | |
| 2/8/26 | ![]() Mel Rosenberg, "Emily Saw A Door" (Random House Studio, 2026)✨ | children's literatureauthor interview+3 | Mel Rosenberg | Random House StudioEmily Saw A Door | — | children's booksMel Rosenberg+3 | — | 1h 00m 34s | |
| 1/17/26 | ![]() Melissa Stoller, "Hazel and Mabel: Two Hearts Apart" (Gnome Road, 2025) | In this, our second interview, I talk to Melissa Stoller about her new book Hazel and Mabel: Two Hearts Apart, Anita Bagdi (Illustrator), published by Gnome Road (2025). It's a story of two friends who were inseparable until one moved away. They keep their friendship alive through letters, but when they meet again, their interests have changed and they have trouble finding an eventual away to rekindle their friendship. Most of us adults (me included) have experienced this occurrence, but picture books about the topic are rare. After all, how do you explain it to a five year old? Melissa does a terrific job. We talk about the ups and downs of her career, and where ideas for stories seem to come out of nowhere, or everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 43m 39s | ||||||
| 12/10/25 | ![]() Cindy Williams Schrauben, "Hank's Change of Heart" (The Little Press, 2025) | In this, our second interview with children's author Cindy Williams Schrauben, we celebrate her new book, Hank's Change of Heart (The Little Press, 2025) Hardcover, illustrations by Sasha Richards, published by The Little Press just last month (Nov. 2025). We talk about the difficulties in traditional publishing, both for those aspiring to be published, and those already published. We discuss the role of the message in the story, the joy of writing, and the pain of rejection, and the importance of obsessive perseverence in getting traditionally published. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 34m 14s | ||||||
| 12/5/25 | ![]() Renée LaTulippe, "Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics" (Charlesbridge Moves, 2025) | A wonderful interview with children's author, poet and teacher of everything lyrical and rhyming, Renée LaTulippe, to celebrate her brand new book, Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics!, illustrated by Chuck Gonzales, just published (Charlesbridge Moves, 2025). In this, our second interview, we discuss the theatrical aspects of children's books and the role of lyrical and rhyming words in creating moving read-aloud stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 45m 41s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | ![]() Jennifer Conrad on Teaching Through Picture Book Appreciation | I have never spoken to anyone like Jennifer Conrad who teaches literature to her senior high school students through picture book appreciation. In our interview, we discuss how her unique program evolved, and how her students develop and deepen their love for this genre through interaction with young children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 39m 33s | ||||||
| 11/8/25 | ![]() Ziggy Hanaor, "Life (As We Know It)" (Cicada Books, 2025) | Ziggy Hanaor is the director of Cicada Books, a boutique children’s publishing company. She has also written nine books including Fly Flies, Alex and Alex and The Pocket Chaotic, which have won awards and have been translated into over 20 languages. In our conversation we celebrate her new book about the history of the universe and us, entitled, Life (As We Know It) (Cicada, 2025, Cristóbal Schmal (Illustrator), and talk about her careers in publishing and writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 42m 24s | ||||||
| 11/7/25 | ![]() Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025) | Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature (Routledge, 2025) investigates the gender representations that French children's literature transmits to readers today. Using an interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach, this book grounds its literary analysis in a sociohistorical examination of three key institutions – libraries, book clubs, and subscription magazines – that circulate reading material to children. It shows how French policies, cultural beliefs, and market forces influence the content of children's literature, including tensions between State support for unprofitable artistic endeavors and a belief in children’s right to high-quality products on the one hand, and suspicion of activism as anathema to creativity and fear of losing boy readers on the other. In addition, the notion of universalism, which asserts that equality is best achieved when society is blind to differences, thwarts a diverse and equitable array of literary representations. Nevertheless, conditions are favorable for 21st-century French children's publishers to offer a robust body of richly entertaining egalitarian literature for children. Guest Julie Fette, author of Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature published in October 2024 by Routledge. Dr. Fette is Associate Professor of French Studies at Rice University where she is also Rice Faculty Scholar at the Center for the Middle East, Baker Institute and a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is also the author of Exclusions: Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920-1945 from Cornell University Press in 2012 and the co-author of the textbook Les Français from Hackett in 2021, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on subjects from gender and professional life in France to teaching French studies in the classroom and online. Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama. Their research is concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 41m 30s | ||||||
| 11/6/25 | ![]() Stephanie Ellen Sy. "You Can't Tame a Tiger" (OwlKids, 2025) | In our engaging interview, we celebrate award-wining illustrator Julien Chung's new book, You Can't Tame a Tiger (OwlKids) written by Stephanie Ellen Sy, published September, 2025, and talk about his many-faceted career, his ability to mix the commercial and the artistic, his love for surprises and 'wow' moments, and his transition from graphic design to illustrating children's books, and his belief in the importance of the 'writing community.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 49m 00s | ||||||
| 10/29/25 | ![]() Children's Books with Annie Kelley, Executive Editor, Random House STUDIO | A splendid interview (I'm biased, but so what, it really is splendid) with Annie Kelley, Executive Editor, Random House STUDIO. We talk about what she looks for in a manuscript (strong voice and not generic, needs to stand out in some way). She talks about her love for children's books as a child and how she found her dream job as editor. Annie urges authors to ignore the advice of "writing to the trend" and to write from the heart. Annie talks about her 'specialty', finding the right illustrator for the right book. Annie talks about some of her recent and current books (including mine!!!). So am I lucky or what? Heads up, people: EMILY SAW A DOOR, illustrated fabulously by Orit Magia, launches on Feb. 24th, 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 41m 13s | ||||||
| 10/26/25 | ![]() Tami Lehman-Wilzig, "Rembrandt's Blessing" (Kar-Ben Publishing, 2025) | Inspired by the true story of the friendship between Rembrandt and Rabbi Menashe Ben Israel. Painting scenes from Bible stories is Rembrandt's passion. Many of his Amsterdam neighbors are Sephardic Jews, and the children often come to play with the costumes at the renowned painter's house. Rabbi Menashe Ben Israel encourages his neighbors to pose for Rembrandt's biblical scenes. He helps the painter understand the descriptive words in the Hebrew bible. At the rabbi's home for Sabbath dinner, Rembrandt watches his friend cup his hands over his children's heads and say a blessing, which gives him an idea for a very special painting. Tami Lehman-Wilzig is the award-winning author of sixteen Jewish content picture books, including On the Wings of Eagles, SOOSIE, The Horse That Saved Shabbat; Keeping The Promise; Nathan Blows Out the Hanukkah Candles; Passover Around the World; and Hanukkah Around the World. Here, we we talk about her brand new picture book, Rembrandt's Blessing, (illustrated by Anita Barghigiani, Kar-Ben Publishing, Sept. 2025), and her writing journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 43m 14s | ||||||
| 10/13/25 | ![]() Liz Bicknell on a Life in Childrens Literature | Liz Bicknell is one of the most celebrated editors of children's books ever! She began her publishing career at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986, joined Candlewick as editor-in-chief in 1997. Among Bicknell’s coups was signing Jon Klassen, who burst out of the gate with his Caldecott Medal-winning I Want My Hat Back and Caldecott Honor-winning This Is Not My Hat. Liz cultivated work by creators as wide-ranging as popup makers Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart, illustrator Ekua Holmes, and fantasy author Gregory Maguire. She edited M.T. Anderson’s National Book Award-winning The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing; Carole Boston Weatherford’s Newbery Honor-winning BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood; and Laura Kvasnosky’s Geisel-winning Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways. Other authors and illustrators who worked with Bicknell won Caldecott Honors, Printz Honors, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and more. In our wonderful interview Liz and I talk about her life and her career, and her thoughts on choosing and publishing picture books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 41m 48s | ||||||
| 10/12/25 | ![]() Trends in KIdslit: A Discussion with Harold Underdown | Harold Underdown has worked as an independent editor and publishing consultant, providing developmental edits and strategic consulting; and as an in-house editor with Kane Press, McGraw-Hill Education, Charlesbridge, and Orchard Books. He also mentors individual authors - me included! Harold speaks and gives workshops through the Highlights Foundation and SCBWI's national and regional conferences. He wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Children's Book Publishing, now in its third edition. He founded and runs "The Purple Crayon," a respected web site with information about the children's publishing world at www.underdown.org. In this, our third discussion, we talk about Harold's upcoming workshop for Highlights on trends in kidlit, and how our process of working together evolved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 49m 34s | ||||||
| 10/8/25 | ![]() Sven Völker, "The Museum of Shapes" (Cicada Books, 2025) | Welcome to the Museum of Shapes. Alma is the curator of the museum. She decides which shapes should go where. Triangles have three sides and three angles. Can you help Alma find all the triangles on the shelves? Almas favorite shape is a circle. All the points on the edge of a circle are the same distance from its center. Not all shapes are geometric. Some lines are wiggly and messy. Can you make a wiggly line with your body? The Museum of Shapes (Cicada Books, 2025) is an engaging and informative book about the shapes that make up our world. The narrative framework is complemented by interactive texts and gorgeous, minimalist illustration, shedding new light on the beauty of geometry. Sven Völker is Professor for Experiment and Strategy in Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. He studied at the University of Art in Bremen and received an master degree from Middlesex University in London. In 2004 he was appointed professor for graphic design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe and since 2010 tought at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 56m 43s | ||||||
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