The place where young readers meet to talk about books. The show includes a celebrity reader and an interview with the author. The host is award winning public radio journalist Kitty Felde.Book Club won the California Library Association Technology Award and the DC Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanitites. Named one of the top 10 podcasts for kids by THE TIMES of London.
Episode One: The Books Kids in LA County LoveCreated by: Kitty Felde
Started: January 10th, 2024
Status: Active, 85 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
<a href="https://soundcarrot.com/shows/shows/book-club-for-kids/" title="SoundCarrot.com - Children's podcasts"><img src="https://soundcarrot.com/img/sc-sm.png" alt="Listen On SoundCarrot" style="width: 200px; height: auto" /></a>This week, we get a new look at an old fairy tale – the story of the Russian witch known as Baba Yaga. A boys book club in Portland, Oregon met us at Powell’s Books to discuss Katherine Marsh’s novel “The Door by the Staircase” with host Kitty Felde. Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who represents Portland on Capitol, is celebrity reader.
How does a White House speechwriter turn into a writer for kids? How do you become a Washington speech writer to begin with? We speak to Sean O’Brien, former speechwriter to then-Vice President Joe Biden. Kitty Felde is host.
Former White House speechwriter Sean O’Brien takes us inside the building to a secret passageway to the past in his mystery “White House Clubhouse.” Readers from Oak View Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia discuss how Theodore Roosevelt’s mantras are still relevant to them today. Actress Elizabeth Logun is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
If you’ve listened to the show before, you know that we ask everybody our favorite question: What’s your favorite book and why. We ask it in classrooms, we ask it in libraries, and we ask if of YOU. A pair of twin brothers from Washington state picked up a phone and recorded their answers on the voice memo app of a smartphone and sent it to us. We also visit the National Book Club in the other Washington: Washington, D.C. Kitty Felde is host.
We have a conversation with “A Little Wicked” author Janet Macreery about two kids of writers: plotters and pantsers. Kitty Felde is host.
We have a conversation with “A Little Wicked” author Janet Macreery about two kids of writers: plotters and pantsers. Kitty Felde is host.
We pay tribute to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg as we reprise an episode taped before a live audience at the National Archives in 2017. Readers from the Girlfriends BookClub Baltimore discuss A Little Wicked by Janet Macreery with host Kitty Felde. Susan Stamberg is our celebrity reader.
Does a background in radio help you write dialogue? What’s the one thing you should never include in a book designed for readers with dyslexia? We ask the expert: Lisa Thompson, author of “The Light Jar” and other middle grade novels.
Created by: Kitty Felde
Started:
January 10th, 2024
Status: Active, 85 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
When Chloe is sent off to live with her mysterious and eccentric grandmother she learns an unbelievable secret. Grandma Ivy is none other than Mother Nature herself! And Chloe is next in line to assume to the power and responsibility of the job. Can a twelve-year old learn to balance the entire world’s ecosystem while just trying to fit in at her new school? Only Mother Nature knows.
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