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.
Booki Vivat: All The Wonders, Episode 314
Booki Vivat, debut author illustrator of Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom, stops by the podcast to talk about doodles taking over the pages of her planner, being the kind of kid who is always freaking out, and trying to figure out who you are and where you belong.
Jack and Holman Wang: All The Wonders, Episode 313
Jack and Holman Wang, creators of the Cozy Classics series, stop by the podcast to talk about eliminating sub plots, thinking about sound in storytelling, and the “illustrate-ability” of a word.
The Top 20 Middle Grade Books of 2016: Books Between, Episode 13
Share this PostThe Top 20 Middle Grade Books of 2016 Episode Transcript:2016 has been a phenomenal year. For middle grade books. (Not so much for anything else, really!) And for ...
Chris Haughton: Picturebooking, Episode 69
Ideas are funny things. They don’t always grow in a straight line and rightfully so. Sometime I think the most important thing you can do to help an idea grow is to listen … and to let it change. Today’s author Chris Haughton had an idea that grew into his latest book Goodnight Everyone. How this story started and where it ended up are super interesting …
Philip C. Stead: All The Wonders, Episode 313
Philip C. Stead, author illustrator of Samson in the Snow, stops by the podcast to talk about being a natural worrier, using various materials to express the whole rainbow of what snow can be, and what time means to a creative person.
Molly Bang: All The Wonders, Episode 311
Molly Bang, author and illustrator of Picture This: How Pictures Work, celebrating it’s 25th anniversary with a revised and expanded version from Chronicle Books, stops by the podcast to talk about the darkest and brightest and warmest and softest of our feelings.
Great Gifts for Middle Grade Readers: Books Between, Episode 12
Share this PostGreat Gifts for Middle Grade ReadersEpisode Transcript:December is here and for many, December brings holidays that involve gift-giving. So if you have a child between the ages of ...
Denis Markell: All The Wonders, Episode 310
Denis Markell, author of Click Here to Start, stops by the podcast to talk about setting a mystical adventure in a mundane space, making the kid characters feel real, and the notion that just because you haven’t found the solution doesn’t mean that there isn’t one (you just have to keep trying).
Jake Parker: Picturebooking, Episode 68
On the show today we have Jake Parker and his debut picture book Little Bot & Sparrow. Jake has worked in comics, concept art, illustration and animation. He started the popular drawing challenge Inktober and co-founded the illustration education website svslearn.com. Basically Jake Parker makes things! And after this talk you’re going to be inspired to make things too.