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: A Conversation with Yona Zeldis McDonoughCreated by: Kitty Felde
Started: June 19th, 2024
Status: Active, 80 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>We take our microphone out to the 2026 City of Stem/LA Maker Faire to ask these young scientists and astronauts about their favorite books. Several of them are OUR favorite books, too! And you can click on the links to hear the Book Club for Kids episode about that book. Kitty Felde is host.
How do we measure up to our parents’ expectations? Does everybody deserve a day off? What’s the toughest part of being a homeschooled kid? Our group of readers from the Broomfield Public Library in Colorado weigh in on these questions and more as they discuss Lisa Graff‘s novel Absolutely Almost. Lisa talks about where the characters came from and how she wrote her first book for her newborn baby brother. NYC actor Thaddeus Fitzpatrick is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
Ever wonder what kids in Georgia and Florida are reading? Here’s a few suggestions from readers at Druid Hills Middle School in Decatur, Georgia and Indian Trace Elementary School in Weston, Florida.
You’ve been calling us with your favorite books. Here’s the latest list:
Witches, monsters, and a brave little thief. Those are the ingredients in Claire Legrand’s novel “Foxheart.” The book was chosen by Book Club for Kids fan Kailas. She and her two fellow readers Iona and Gabi discussed the novel one sunny Sunday afternoon upstairs at Boulder Bookstore with host Kitty Felde. Our celebrity reader is actor Wesley Mann. And writer Claire Legrand explains how “Foxheart” began as a short story on a website.
What’s it like to be adopted? Does your adopted family’s history become your history or do you feel the need to find your biological story? Our book this week is “The Length of a String” by Elissa Brent Weissman. It’s a Holocaust story about a Jewish family separated by the war. Readers from the Girlfriends Book Club of Baltimore at Hazelwood Elementary Middle School discuss the book and pose lots of questions to our writer. Actor and producer Bari Hochwald is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
Ever wonder what it’s like to write one of the American Girl novels? We get the inside scoop from Lisa Yee.
We explore an immigration story: a Chinese immigrant who ends up in Minnesota. It’s the Newbery Honor Award winning tale “Maisie Chen’s Last Chance.” Writer Lisa Yee tells readers at Overland Elementary School that the book is based on her own family’s history. Our celebrity reader is public radio journalist Josie Huang from LAist.
Created by: Kitty Felde
Started:
June 19th, 2024
Status: Active, 80 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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