Brain Burps About Books Podcast #246

Time to Celebrate Picture Book Month!

An Interview with Dianne de Las Casas

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This week my guest is Dianne de Las Casas Dianne and I talk about

• How Picture Book Month got started.
• Our own picture book memories.
• How picture books promote literacy.
• Elizabeth O. Dulemba's Picture Book Month Calendar.
• Marcie Colleen's curriculum guides for Picture Book Month.
• How to work picture books in to school curriculum.
• Free downloads available for Picture Book Month.
• Following #PictureBookMonth on Twitter.
• How picture books led Christmas sales last year.
• This month's Picture Book Month Champions• Sudipta Bardan-Quallen • David Biedrzycki • Paulette Bogan • Mike Curato • Matthew Gollub • Julie Gribble • Julie Hedlund • Carter Higgins • Molly Idle • Joe Kulka • Jennifer Gray Olson • Kathryn Otoshi • Anne Marie Pace • Rukhsana Khan • Robin Newman • Penny Parker Klostermann • Eric Litwin • Loren Long • Deb Lund • LeUyen Pham • Matt Phelan • Stephen Shaskan • Trisha Speed Shaskan • TJ Shay • Whitney Stewart • Holly Stone-Barker • Mo Willems • Natasha Wing • Matthew Winner • Paula Yoo