In this Unabridged Bonus episode, we share our experience with the Gus Bus, a mobile literacy program that also offers this after-school component. We met with two groups, K-2 and 3-5, to talk a little bit about podcasting, share some favorite children's books, and get some great recommendations from the Gus Bus students. 

books we read and discussed

*Susan Verde's I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds

*Matt de la Peña's Last Stop on Market Street, illustrated by Christian Robinson

*Jacqueline Woodson's The Day You Begin, illustrated by Rafael López

*Jason Reynolds's Ghost

*Jack Chabert's ​The Locker Ate Lucy

*Dav Pilkey's ​The Adventures of Captain Underpants

*Dav Pilkey's Dog Man series

*5-Minute Batman Stories

*Steve Jenkins's Actual Size

*Greg Farshtey's Way of the Ninja (first in the Ninjago series)

*​Max Brallier and Douglas Holgate's The Last Kids on Earth

*Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series (Netflix series)

*Raina Telgemeir's Smile, Ghosts, and Kristy's Great Idea (first in the new Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels)

*J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series; the first book is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

*Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

*Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot's Mrs. Master Is a Disaster

*Paul Tobin's Plants vs. Zombies

*Kimberly Brubaker Bryan's The War that Saved My Life

*Greg Logsted's Alibi Junior High

*Author Chris Van Allsburg (check out his Jumanji)

*Jeff Kinney's The Getaway (from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series)

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