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  • Yevgenia Nayberg, "A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me" (Neal Porter Books, 2024)

    Yevgenia Nayberg, "A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me" (Neal Porter Books, 2024)
    2025/06/21
    A young girl forms a special connection to the modernist painter Florine Stettheimer, and imagines herself joining in on Florine’s exciting life.When a young girl visits the museum, she finds an unexpected friend in a self-portrait of Florine Stettheimer. They’re both artists; they both have Jewish families; they even look alike!Florine’s life was wild and glamorous. She painted people in flight and buildings that grew from the ground like crooked trees, bright colors and shapes and animals. She threw parties frequented by other famous visionaries like Marcel Duchamp and Carl Van Vechten.Soon, our narrator is dreaming up her own fantastical parties for Florine, with table spreads of colorful treats, and painting and dancing and poetry. With Florine in her life, even a rainy day can’t make the world seem humdrum anymore.A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me (Neal Porter Books, 2024) is an unapologetically whimsical fan letter to an artist whose influence is clear in Sydney Taylor Honoree Yevgenia Nayberg’s captivating illustrations. Dreamers, creators, and budding modernists will be drawn into the young protagonist’s party just as strongly as she is drawn into Stettheimer’s paintings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 分
  • Melissa H. Mwai, "I Can Make a Friend!" (Paw Prints, 2025)

    Melissa H. Mwai, "I Can Make a Friend!" (Paw Prints, 2025)
    2025/06/20
    Melissa H. Mwai is an author and illustrator, as well as an award-winning poet. She has penned five nonfiction children's books including THE HISTORY OF JAZZ (DK, 2024). As an neurodiverse Afro-Latina, Melissa is thrilled that her books help ethnically and neurodiverse kids learn more deeply about the world around them. In our delightful interview, we celebrate her recent book, I Can Make a Friend! (I Can Do It, 2) (PAW Prints, April, 2025). Melissa talks about her journey to becoming a published author, and her advice for those wishing to pursue a career writing for the educational children's book market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 分
  • Ann Koffsky, "Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman" (Little Bee Books, 2024)

    Ann Koffsky, "Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman" (Little Bee Books, 2024)
    2025/06/12
    Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman POP POP KERPOW!Eleven-year-old Ping-Pong phenom Estee Ackerman must make a difficult choice. When her championship match is scheduled on the Jewish Sabbath, will she go for the gold medal, or honor her faith? Read the true story of how a young girl struggled to uphold her beliefs while pursuing her passion. Tournament after tournament, Estee kept winning.She beat all sorts of players. Some were older. Some were younger.She even beat tennis star Rafael Nadal!She became one of the best Ping-Pong players in the United States. Estee Ackerman loved Ping-Pong more than anything. But she also loved and honored the Jewish tradition of the Sabbath. At age eleven, she began to rise in the ranks of tournament players, making it all the way to the finals of the US National Table Tennis Championships. She only had one player left to beat to win a gold medal--but the final match was set during Shabbat, and the judges said they couldn't change it. How could Estee choose between her passion and her faith? This is the true story of a girl's struggle between her love for her religion and her love of the game.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 分
  • Ann McCallum Staats, "Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants" (MIT Kids Press, 2025)

    Ann McCallum Staats, "Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants" (MIT Kids Press, 2025)
    2025/05/30
    In our lovely interview, we celebrate Ann McCallum Staats' brand new book (just launched this week!), Fantastic Flora: The World’s Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants, wonderfully illustrated by Zoë Ingram, published by MIT Kids Press, an imprint of Candlewick. This is not your run-of-the-mill picture book. It's over 120 pages long and is intended for the 8-12 audience, although younger kids and adults will enjoy it too! Ann is the author of numerous other children’s books, including the Eat Your Homework series, which received two Junior Library Guild Selections and a Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Book of the Year; The Secret Life of Math; and High Flyers: 15 Inspiring Women Aviators and Astronauts. She has a master’s degree in education and lives in Virginia with her family. We talk about her unconventional road to literary success and advice for authors who are on their writing journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 分
  • Betsy Bird, "Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme" (Union Square Books, 2025)

    Betsy Bird, "Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme" (Union Square Books, 2025)
    2025/05/18
    Betsy Bird is the Collection Development Manager of Evanston Public Library and the former Youth Materials Specialist of New York Public Library. She writes for the School Library Journal blog A Fuse #8 Production and reviews for Kirkus. She is the host of the Story Seeds podcast as well as the co-host of the Fuse 8 n' Kate podcast that she creates with her sister. Betsy is the author of picture books, anthologies, and the middle grade novel Long Road to the Circus, illustrated by David Small. In this, our second interview we celebrate her new picture book Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme, illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi (Union Square Kids, March, 2025). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 分
  • Penny Parker Klostermann, "The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and her Arachnid World War II Army" (Astra, 2025)

    Penny Parker Klostermann, "The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and her Arachnid World War II Army" (Astra, 2025)
    2025/05/12
    In our candid and splendid interview, Penny Parker Klostermann introduces her new nonfiction picture book Spider Lady: Nan Songer and Her Arachnid WWII Army (Astra/Calkins Creek, 2025), illustrated by Anne Lambelet, which launched just a few days ago! We also talk about her recent Martian escapade, Merry Christmas, Dear Mars illustrated by Estrela Lourenço (Godwin Books, 2024) and There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight" illustrated by Ben Mantle (Random House, 2015)). Penny shares her journey to traditional publishing, starting with her love of writing stories as a child and later realizing as a teacher, that she might have what it takes to became a published author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 分
  • Marissa Valdez, "Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear" (Roaring Brook, 2025)

    Marissa Valdez, "Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear" (Roaring Brook, 2025)
    2025/05/02
    Marissa Valdez is a #1 New York Times best-selling children’s book author and illustrator. Her clients include Penguin Random House, Candlewick, Hachette, Macmillan, and Highlights Magazine for Children. In our interview we celebrate her new picture book Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear (Roaring Brook Press, 2025), which she both authored and illustrated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 分
  • Michael Parkin, "Wrong Time Rooster" (Flying Eye Books, 2025)

    Michael Parkin, "Wrong Time Rooster" (Flying Eye Books, 2025)
    2025/04/25
    Michael Parkin is an international illustrator, working with the New York Times, the New Yorke, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and others. Several years ago he decided to follow his passion for picture books, and is now celebrating publication of his endearing, kid-centric debut picture book, Wrong Time Rooster (which he both wrote and illustrated), which was just published by Flying Eye Books (Feb., 2025) in the UK. Michael talks about his career in art and illustration, his collaboration with Flying Eye Books (Michael has two more books in the works) and shares advice with aspiring creatives ("Keep a notebook for nighttime ideas near your bed, you will forget your grand idea by the morning"). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 分