Book It!

Jill and Michael chat with author Deborah Wiles about her newest novel-in-verse "Kent State" and the importance of remembering, honoring, but never repeating.

Featuring:
Kent State
Love, Ruby Lavender
Each Little Bird That Sings

We chat toxic friendship with author Gillian McDunn!

Featuring:

The Queen Bee and Me

Caterpillar Summer

A Separate Peace

We chat our favorite Vacation reads!

New York Times best selling author Renée Watson wants to help children find the sunshine in their lives, and to help them create sunshine for themselves when they need it most. We spoke with Renée about her new chapter book Ways to Make Sunshine, her love for Ramona Quimby, and what it felt like win the Coretta Scott King Award and to receive the Newbery Honor!

In Part II of our school libraries episode, Jill and Michael chat with high school English teacher Margie. Margie's school does not have a library, and many of her students are English language learners, which makes finding appropriate reading material even more complicated.

The school library system is in trouble, and not enough people are talking about it! But educators are to the rescue! Michael and Jill interview a first-grade teacher about her experience with the school library system and how she encourages her children to read. Part I in a two-part series.

From disbelief to panic and everything in between, Michael and Jill share their pandemic fears, and offer some book recommendations that have brought them some comfort!

The good, the bad, the so bad they're good...episode 2 finds Jill and Michael talking all things book adaptations! From Harry Potter to Bridget Jones, A Wrinkle in Time to Fifty Shades of Grey, we chat our faves, our least faves, and everything in between! 

In the first episode of B**k It!, Jill and Michael talk books that make them, books that break them, and Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name.