Kate DiCamillo joins us to talk about her work from Because of Winn Dixie to The Puppets of Spelhorst and beyond. DiCamillo and co-host Jenna Seery discuss her start as a writer, the joys a good book can bring, the importance of reading for young people and more. We end this episode with TBR Top Off book recommendations from […]
Great fiction is all about providing a different perspective on the world—taking readers outside of their own heads and looking at things in an entirely new way. And you can’t get much further outside your own head than going outside your own species, right? Literature is rife with examples of books featuring non-human narrators. Done poorly, the device is alienating, […]
Ever wondered what your kiddos should read next after finishing one of James Patterson’s awesome books? Well, who better to ask than the bestselling author himself? We got the chance to pose some of our most burning questions about Patterson’s creative process and what books by other authors he recommends to his fans. His latest […]
Kate DiCamillo is a household name in children’s literature; the author of such titles as Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Desperaux, Flora & Ulysses, and the Mercy Watson series, just to name a few. She’s also the winner of not one, but TWO Newbery Awards (2004 and 2014), a Newbery Honor (2001) award, a Theodor Geisel Award (2011), […]
The first rule of book-to-movie adaptations: The book is almost always better than the movie. Even if the flick is awesome on its own, it will likely look different on screen than it did in your head while you were reading the book. You pictured the main character as being a brunette with glasses, but […]