The Beginning of Your Life Book Club

Series Finale! The end of one thing + the beginning of another. Celebrating the last 100 years + looking to the future. Letting go + going on. And … there's nothing else like a picture book.

GUESTS:

Loren Long

Diane Capriola

Shaina Birkhead

And

Matthew Winner

References and Further Reading:

Little Tree

The Cinder-Eyed Cats

Mommy, Please Don't Go To Work

Montessori Planes of Development

Jacqueline Woodson Legacy Speech

Little Shop of Stories

Decatur Book Festival

Children's Book Council

Every Child a Reader

The Rabbit hOle

Fred Rogers, 2001

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Artists, authors, autism and an episode where I take a closer look and a different view.

GUESTS: Felicia Bryan and Eliyanna Kaiser

References and Further Reading:

Bank Street College of Education

The Enduring Appeal of Where the Wild Things Are

There's a Mystery There, Jonathan Cott

The Surprising Ingenuity Behind "Goodnight Moon"

What Writers Can Learn from Goodnight Moon

Knufflebunny

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Line Up the Books

Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms & Definitions

Autism Speaks

Your Personal Penguin

Drag Queen Story Hour

Jacqueline Woodson's acceptance speech

One of my guiding questions about the magic of books is - well, it's kind of weird. Follow along to see where it takes us.

GUESTS:

Julie Bliven

Courtney Hinshaw

Shaina Birkhead

Kelly Baker

Matthew Winner

Diarra "Crckt" Leggett

Clare Hollander

RESOURCES:

What Kinds of Books Excite a School Librarian, by Matthew Winner

The Children's Book Podcast

Will Schwalbe

Reid's Read-Alouds

Boomerang Brings Back the Book Bus

Making A Difference In Young Lives Through Children's Outreach

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It's back to the beginning of life as we think about first books, family identity, and the all important read-aloud.

GUESTS:

• Winford and Judy Akins

• Jenny Horsley

• Janice Dobbs

• Mary Gallagher

• Grace Stedje-Larsen

• and of course Julia and Clara

REFERENCES:

First Book

Imagination Library

Reach Out and Read KC

Barbershop Books

TED Talk: How to Inspire Every Child to be a Lifelong Reader

Teach a Child to Read With Children's Books

The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease

The Read-Aloud Family - Sarah MacKenzie

Reading Magic - Mem Fox

13 Words

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"You'll know it's time to turn the page when you hear this sound." But wait. It's so much more than a page turn.

GUESTS:

Lauren Ranalli

Dr. Debbie Reese

Julie Bliven

Vanessa Nielson

REFERENCES:

American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within, Barbara Bader

Children's Picturebooks; The Art of Visual Storytelling, Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles

Kidlitcollege.com

The Great Latke Cookoff, Lauren Ranalli

Rahma Rodaah

We Need Diverse Books

Corinne Duyvis

Looking at Pictures in Picture Books, Jane Doonan

Charlesbridge

Julie Bliven

You Are My I Love You, Maryann Cusimano Love; illustrated by Satomi Ichikawa

Sol Book Box

Reading Magic, Mem Fox

"The Exposure Advantage: Early Exposure to a Multilingual Environment Promotes Effective Communication"

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But wait. What if you are surrounded by so many mirrors that you can't imagine anything beyond your own world? What if you have so many windows you never see yourself?

GUESTS:

• Dr. Debbie Reese

• Nicole Johnson

• Matthew Schmidt

• Charlotte Anderholt

REFERENCES & FURTHER READING:

2015 Diversity in Children's Literature (inforgraphic)

American Indians in Children's Literature

We Need Diverse Books

Oyate's Books to Avoid - Knots on a Counting Rope

How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kid

The Danger of a Single Story

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When words and pictures come together, there's magic. But, wait. What if you can't read or hear the words? What if you can't see the pictures?

GUESTS:

• Karen Smith

• Tara Miles

• Courtney Hinshaw

REFERENCES & FURTHER READING:

• Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, illustrated by Ted Rand

• Seedlings Braille Books for Children

• Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center

• Reading to Deaf Children: Learning from Deaf Adults

• I Am Enough by Grace Byers, illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo

• Ramona Recommends

• Thank You, Mr Falker by Patricia Polacco

• Dialog in the Dark

• Starbucks Opens First US Sign Language Store

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Reading together creates a sacred and important meeting space for us to bond. But wait. If we're going to say that books are magic, is it always good magic?

GUESTS: Vanessa Nielson, Courtney Hinshaw, Megan Dowd Lambert, Alastair Heim, Alice Ozma, Kelly Baker

REFERENCES & FURTHER READING:

Reading Picture Books With Children by Megan Dowd Lambert

A Family of Readers by Roger Sutton and Martha V. Parravano

The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma

Alastair Heim

a gyroscope video

See What We See

Fred Rogers

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Picture books are comprised of words and pictures … but they're really made up of so much more than that.

GUESTS:

• Daniel Miyares

• Lauren Vaughan Yockel

• Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop

ADDITIONAL AUDIO:

• Audio of Avi's acceptance speech is used with permission from The Association for Library Service to Children, the American Library Association, and Weston Woods.

• Audio of Jessica Love is used with permission from Matthew Winner of The Children's Book Podcast.

REFERENCES & FURTHER READING:

Daniel Miyares

Children's Picturebooks: The art of visual storytelling by Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles

Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books by Perry Nodelman

Picture This by Molly Bang

Looking at Pictures in Picture Books by Jane Doonan

Visual Thinking Strategies

Finding the Space Between Words and Images: Inside an Illustrator's Process by Daniel Miyares

Writing is Naming the World by Avi - 2003 Newbery Award Acceptance Speech

Jessica Love (The Children's Book Podcast #438)

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Here is the second of the two beginnings I've chosen for my exploration - and for this we'll use the magic of time travel.

GUESTS:

Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop

and, of course, Julia and Clara

REFERENCES:

Free Within Ourselves: The Development of African American Children's Literature (2007) Rudine Sims Bishop Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature (2008) Leonard S. Marcus Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing (2013) Leonard S. Marcus

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1787)

The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)

Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors (1990) Rudine Sims Bishop

The All-White World of Children's Books (1965) Nancy Larrick

Additional RESOURCES:

"African American children's literature: past and present" (April 21, 1997)

John Newbery: Instruction with Delight (2013) Sarah Albee

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