The Beginning of Your Life Book Club Emily Akins

In this episode you will meet the people in my book club(s), learn the inspiration for this podcast’s name, and find out the correct way to sing “Caps! Caps for Sale! 50 cents a cap!”
 
GUESTS
Judy and Winford Akins
Damon Akins
Will Schwalbe
and, of course, Julia and Clara
 
REFERENCES:
Fisher Price My Little People Busy Town
The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Moser, illustrated by Blair Lent
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
 
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Here is the first of two beginnings for my exploration on children's literature + something else that's magic. 
 
GUESTS:
Kelly Baker
Will Schwalbe
 
REFERENCES:
Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Usha Goswami
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Who Explored Babies' Mental Growth, Dies at 99
USA Philatelic / Volume 23 / Fall 2018
 
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Here is the second of the two beginnings I've chosen for my exploration - and for this we'll use the magic of time travel. 
 
GUESTS:
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
and, of course, Julia and Clara
 
REFERENCES:
Free Within Ourselves: The Development of African American Children's Literature (2007)  Rudine Sims Bishop  Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature (2008) Leonard S. Marcus  Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing (2013) Leonard S. Marcus  A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1787)
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)
Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors (1990) Rudine Sims Bishop
The All-White World of Children’s Books (1965) Nancy Larrick

Additional RESOURCES:
“African American children's literature: past and present” (April 21, 1997)
John Newbery: Instruction with Delight (2013) Sarah Albee 
 
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Picture books are comprised of words and pictures … but they’re really made up of so much more than that.

GUESTS:
Daniel Miyares
Lauren Vaughan Yockel
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
 
ADDITIONAL AUDIO:
Audio of Avi’s acceptance speech is used with permission from The Association for Library Service to Children, the American Library Association, and Weston Woods.
Audio of Jessica Love is used with permission from Matthew Winner of The Children’s Book Podcast.
 
REFERENCES & FURTHER READING:
Daniel Miyares
Children’s Picturebooks: The art of visual storytelling by Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles
Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Books by Perry Nodelman
Picture This by Molly Bang
Looking at Pictures in Picture Books by Jane Doonan
Visual Thinking Strategies
Finding the Space Between Words and Images: Inside an Illustrator’s Process by Daniel Miyares
Writing is Naming the World by Avi - 2003 Newbery Award Acceptance Speech
Jessica Love (The Children’s Book Podcast #438)
 
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Reading together creates a sacred and important meeting space for us to bond. But wait. If we're going to say that books are magic, is it always good magic?
GUESTS: Vanessa Nielson, Courtney Hinshaw, Megan Dowd Lambert, Alastair Heim, Alice Ozma, Kelly Baker
REFERENCES & FURTHER READING:
Reading Picture Books With Children by Megan Dowd Lambert
A Family of Readers by Roger Sutton and Martha V. Parravano
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
Alastair Heim
a gyroscope video
See What We See
Fred Rogers
 
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When words and pictures come together, there’s magic. But, wait. What if you can’t read or hear the words? What if you can’t see the pictures?
 
GUESTS:
Karen Smith
Tara Miles
Courtney Hinshaw
 
REFERENCES & FURTHER READING:
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, illustrated by Ted Rand
Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Reading to Deaf Children: Learning from Deaf Adults
I Am Enough by Grace Byers, illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo
Ramona Recommends
Thank You, Mr Falker by Patricia Polacco
Dialog in the Dark
Starbucks Opens First US Sign Language Store
 
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