The Triumphant Return of The Children’s Book Podcast! (+ Logo Reveal!)
Let us go back to 2013. It was a simpler time. It was also the year teacher-librarian Matthew Winner decided to give the podcasting thing a try.
The Let’s Get Busy podcast was born.
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Since then, the show has undergone a few changes . . .
. . . before eventually settling in as The Children’s Book Podcast. Over the years, Matthew has shared great conversations with hundreds of folks in the children’s literature world: authors, illustrators, editors, agents, educators, and more.
On a personal note, The Children’s Book Podcast was a big influence as Colby Sharp and I started our own show, The Yarn podcast. Matthew showed it could be done, and what could be done in an audio show about children’s books.
When Matthew became Head of Podcasts at A Kids Co. in 2021, the show when on hiatus. But now, The Children’s Book Podcast is back, with a new format and a fresh look:
The wonderful new logo is designed by Duke Stebbins.
As it returns, the show is shifting gears a bit. It will still feature plenty of authors and illustrators, but the show will be more for kids than in the past (kids ages 6-10+ and their grownups). Episodes will also be shorter (around 15 min. each) and more “classroom ready”, for teachers and librarians to use with students.
You can listen to the trailer below (featuring Kelly Yang (NEW FROM HERE, FRONT DESK), Torrey Maldonado (HANDS, WHAT LANE!?, TIGHT), and Rebecca Sheir (CIRCLE ROUND podcast) and Matthew’s kids). New episodes arrive in January 2023.
Join me in welcoming back The Children’s Book Podcast!
And here’s a full description:
Exploring big ideas and the way that stories can help us feel seen, understood, and valued. The Children’s Book Podcast features insightful and sincere interviews with authors, illustrators, and everyone involved in taking a book from drawing board to bookshelf. Hosted by a teacher and school librarian, each episode seeks to connect kids and listeners of all ages to powerful, impactful, and lasting stories, and the people who tell them.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Congratulations to ALL! All the people and shows listed have offered so much to me personally, so I can imagine how it must feel to others. Well done with A Kids Co. Matthew, the Environmental one with the kid activists had me cheering while listening. I saved it. Very powerful. It also made me think of our Climate Action song for Climate Strike & how it could support a show like that with a song kids can download (from QR) and use supplementally. Just like Artists see something and think “an illustration would be good here,” or a Podcaster has an experience and thinks “THIS would be a great Podcast topic,” I see the world through the eyes of a Music Teacher. Everything can be a song, written to educate, motivate, comfort, inspire….. when Kids write their own lyrics, they often remember the content. Also singing brings unity, the way listening to a good book read aloud brings the group together.
Putting songs and books together for classrooms and libraries is one of my goals this year. If I can offer any help, I’m interested in this combination. And Travis and Colby, thanks also for the last several years of good info, opinions, teaching and videos. You kept me feeling closer to the classroom and I found books and topics I wouldn’t have picked for myself, but ended up interested in, LOL. I think the shorter format will make this intense, targeted, and still on point. And for those of us with shorter attention spans, this will be perfect. I just wrote the Theme Song for Non Fiction Minute Podcast. I love small, intense nuggets of info (set to music,haha).
Best wishes for Happy Holidays, and successful programming for all this coming new year. Stay safe, stay well, and more podcasts & videos, all! Please. And Thanks.
Peace, Annie Lynn/AnnieBirdd Music, LLC ✌🏽💖🎶🎨📚🌻