Five picture books reviewed, including a great big enormous pile of toys, a bit of nonsense from a favorite artist, and love… so much love. It’s the Best Book Ever (this week)!
Fairy Trees & Lobster Boats
Ellen Potter, author most recently of Piper Green and the Fairy Tree and its sequel Too Much Good Luck, invites us along as she relives a unique author tour and gets to know more intimately the world of her stories.
Andy Rash: Let’s Get Busy, Episode 225
Andy Rash, author illustrator of Archie The Daredevil Penguin stops by the podcast to talk about the truth hidden within a joke, how we’re always hardest on ourselves, and that sometimes you can trust your friends.
Salina Yoon: Let’s Get Busy, Episode 224
Salina Yoon, author illustrator of Be A Friend, stops by the podcast to talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve, her childhood struggle with reading and writing in English when Korean was the only language spoken at home, and a focus on the universality of art.
Storytime: Wishes!
This is the time of year reflecting and hoping. For dreaming. And for wishing. Even if our kids don’t mark time the way we do or feel the fresh start of a new year peeking around the corner, there’s something inherently kid about the humble wish.
Michelle Schusterman: Let's Get Busy, Episode 223
Michelle Schusterman, author of Dead Air: The Kat Sinclair Files (Book #1), stops by the podcast to talk about writing a gritty, urban Nancy Drew story, being a skeptic, and how’s there’s a logical explanation to most things that spook people.
Best of 2015: Picture Books
Camp All The Wonders has been abuzz with year-end favorites and if this list is at all a testament, 2015 was a very good year for picture books. Check out our favorites and let us know what we missed by leaving us a comment below.
Best of 2015: Nonfiction Picture Books
The nonfiction picture books published this year were some of the best we’ve seen and, with such a strong year for children’s publishing, there’s no doubt there are more great nonfiction books from 2015 we have read. Check out our favorites and let us know what we missed by leaving us a comment below.
Best of 2015: Chapter Books to YA
The amazing picture books of 2015 kept us quite busy at Camp All The Wonders, but that didn’t stop us from enjoying some exceptional novels. Here are the year’s chapter books, middle grade novels, and young adult novels that we cannot stop thinking about.
Best of 2015: Picturebooking, Episode 43
Let’s have a little fun to close out the year. This episode features a countdown of the top-5 most listened to picturebooking episodes of 2015. Plus I announce my favorite book featured on the show this year.