Podcast interviews with experts and
picture book panels
Listen to experts and picture book panels discuss children’s literature.
Find your favorites below.
Why Books?
32 authors and illustrators come back on the show to answer the question … Why picture books are important?
Mentors
Mentors play a huge role in any successful book, career or life. So I’ve asked a five authors and illustrators to tell us a story of a mentor who has help them along their path.
Apr. ’18 Books
A collection of six spring books from 2018.
Friendship
Three books that have a friendship theme.
Christmas Books
Three books to add to your Christmas holiday collection.
Our Story Begins
26 award winning authors and illustrators share things they wrote and drew as kids in the inspirational book, OUR STORY BEGINS.
Classics
Bruce Handy is currently a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. A former writer and editor at Spy and Time, his articles, essays, reviews, and humor pieces have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Vogue, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker.
Self-publishing
Mike & Jonathan Sundy teach us about self-publishing children’s picture books and transitioning from traditional jobs to self-employed creatives.
Struggles
13 authors and illustrators tell us what they find as the most painful thing about the picture book industry. It’s some honest picturebooking therapy. Take a listen and I’m sure you’ll be inspired to continue creating despite the struggles.
Best of 2016
This episode features a countdown of the top-5 most listened to picturebooking interviews of 2016. Plus I announce my favorite book featured on the show this year.