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    Apple Crushing It with Lucy Knisley

    Betsy Bird, May 3, 2022 | Interviews

    Fans of Stepping Stones, rejoice! Lucy Knisley returns with a brand new follow-up and is here to discuss crushes, chicken coops, and how these books are fiction training wheels.

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    And Tango Gets Banned Again? Book Banning Perspectives from Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

    Betsy Bird, April 26, 2022 | Interviews

    and offer advice to book creators facing challenges to their own works for the very first time.

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    Pigeon & Cat: An Interview with Eddie Hemingway

    Betsy Bird, April 22, 2022 | Interviews

    Interested in a retro-styled treat of friendship? Eddie Hemingway's back with a particularly sweet tale and I get to ask him about it at length.

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    Fracturing Fairytales Left and Right: A Talk with Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat About Endlessly Ever After

    Betsy Bird, April 19, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Interviews

    The picture book Endlessly Ever After by Laurel Snyder (out everywhere today!!) not only combines the Choose Your Own Adventure format and applies it to fairy tales, but it is also sumptuously illustrated by Caldecott Award winner and general nice fellow Dan Santat. Come listen to the creators discuss it!

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    Bringing Adventure Back From the Brink: A Scott Magoon Interview About The Extincts

    Betsy Bird, April 6, 2022 | Interviews

    Our planet is on fire and anything that can raise awareness is definitely a good thing. Scott Magoon talks about his new Cli-Fi title The Extincts and what he hopes it gives to kids today.

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    Nature Meets Environmental Activism: A Footprints Interview with Jennifer Swanson

    Betsy Bird, March 31, 2022 | Interviews

    A fascinating discussion of how an author can make a difference with even the smallest of picture book titles. It talk to author Jennifer Swanson about her latest book, FOOTPRINTS.

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    Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: Talking About Flamingos and Watermelons with Zahra Marwan

    Betsy Bird, March 29, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Interviews

    Sometimes it feels like I've seen so many picture books on immigration, and yet I've never seen anything like Zahra Marwan's WHERE BUTTERFLIES FILL THE SKY. There's a lightness to it, even in the midst of a deadly serious topic, that isn't like anything else out there.

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    Orange You Glad I’m Doing This Interview? Carrie Tillotson & Estrela Lourenco Talk Bananas

    Betsy Bird, March 17, 2022 | Interviews

    The problem with the world today is that we don't have enough picture books about spotlight-hungry bananas written by biostatisticians. And as luck would have it, such a book is coming out soon. I talk with its creators.

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    Cover Reveal and Interview: The Lodge That Beaver Built by Randi Sonenshine, ill. Anne Hunter

    Betsy Bird, March 10, 2022 | Cover Reveal, Interviews

    If you know me then you know that I love beavers beavers beavers. Today I talk with the creators of THE LODGE THAT BEAVER BUILT to revel in our mutual love of these kooky critters.

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    Graphic Novel Alert! Catch the Wingbearer in This Marjorie Liu Interview

    Betsy Bird, March 9, 2022 | Interviews

    For 2022 I intend to read more graphic novels for kids, by gum. A good place to start? Well, there's that WINGBEARER comic by Marjorie Liu. It just came out this month and has already started pulling in some stars.

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