Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me this week as co-host is Jeanette Bradley - a writer, an illustrator, a former urban planner - and author/illustrator of the picture book Love, Mama and the upcoming When the Babies Came to Stay and No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making Change, Co-edited with  Keila V. Dawson, and Lindsay H. Metcalf and Illustrated.by Jeanette. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me this week to discuss what's new in the world of children's literature is Aida Salazar - an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice.  Her debut middle grade novel-in-verse, The Moon Within, was one of my absolute favorite books in 2019. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me today to chat about some highlights and major events in the realm of children's literature is Katey Howes - one of the All the Wonders contributors and author of the picture books Be A Maker, Magnolia Mudd and the Super Jumptastic Launcher Deluxe, and Grandmother Thorn. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me this week to talk about all things exciting and new in the world of children's literature is Jason June, formerly Jason Gallaher - a writer who loves to create picture books that mix the flamboyant and wacky with the slightly dark, and young adult rom-coms that celebrate love of all kinds. He's the author of Whobert Whover, Owl Detective, illustrated by Jess Pauwels, and his next book, Porcupine Cupid, a queer-inclusive Valentine's Day story, illustrated by Lori Richmond, comes out next year. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me this week to talk about all things exciting and new in the world of children's literature is Tara Lazar - a mom of two, a children's book blogger, and author of several picture books including  7 Ate 9, Your First Day of Circus School, and - just out today - The Upper Case: Trouble in Capital City. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me this week to discuss what's new and intriguing in the world of children's literature  is Rebecca Donnelly - a children's librarian in northern New York and author of the two middle grade novels How to Stage a Catastrophe and The Friendship Lie - and the newly released picture book, Cats Are a Liquid! Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me this week to chat about what's new and intriguing in the world of children's literature is Debbie Ridpath Ohi -  the author-illustrator of Where Are My Books? and Sam & Eva, and the illustrator for over twenty books including collaborations with authors like Michael Ian Black, Judy Blume and Aaron Reynolds. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me this week to talk about all things exciting and new in the world of children's literature is Lori Richmond - author and illustrator of the picture books Pax and Blue, Bunny's Staycation, and the forthcoming Bunny Business, and illustrator of several other picture books. She is a marathoner, and creator of the running-inspired art series View From My Run. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.

Joining me today to discuss all things exciting and new in the world of children's literature is Stephanie one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter and a writer who has covered a huge range of topics from food to parenting, TV to vampire dating habits. She is the author of Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate and the just-released-today picture book called The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral, which is her first foray into children's book publishing. Please head over to All the Wonders for a complete outline of this episode - including links to every book and topic we chat about.