Reading With Your Kids Podcast

Author & publisher Ryan Jacobson is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate his series of Choose Your Path #MiddleGrade #Novels. Ryan tells us that Choose Your Path books are wonderful for families to enjoy together: reading aloud, discussing each option, and making the choices as team. They are a super fun way to get reluctant readers to get hooked on books. Click here to visit Ryan's w...

Author, entreprenuer and innovator Lauren Imparato is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her debut #PictureBook Cookies Are Better Than Vegetables. Lauren tells us this book was inspired by her grandmother who told Lauren that cookies could give you superpower and turn you into a superhero, one that flies and conquers their dreams! Click here to visit our website - www.readingwithyo...

Author Sarah Weeks and Illustrator Joey Ellis are on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate their new Blippo and Beep #PictureBook series. Our guests tell us that this is a great series for kids becoming independent readers that celebrates friendship between people, and robots, with very different personalities. Click here to visit Sarah's website - https://sarahweeks.com/ Click here to vi...

Author Amy Schwartz is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate the reissue of her debut #PictureBook Bea and Mr Jones. Amy tells us why she thinks this lovely book is still relevant 40 years after its initial publication. Amy also reflects on some of the other wonderful #ChildrensBooks she has authored and illustrated, and tells us about a very personal project she would love to bring to...

One of our favorite guests, Shannon Anderson, returns to the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her new #MiddleGrade #Novel Not What I Signed Up For. Shannon tells us this is faith based story was written about a girl who suffered from irrational fears that held her back from enjoying normal childhood activities. It was through a tough love experience that she came to understand how fear c...

Alison McGregor is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate the latest release in her Grwoing Up Antoinette #PictureBook series Antoinette and the Story of the Invisible Giraffe. Alison tells us that every mischievous misstep told in the series is totally true and experienced by her mom, the real Antoinette Barbour. This is a delightful conversation about family, adventure and stepping ou...

Victoria Hudson is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her book Dear Mousse, Horseplay and Homophones, Victoria hopes that this book  encourages kids to be creative in crafting their own stories. We also speak with Shevonica M Howell, author, educator, mom and military veteran at the Florida Home School Convention. Click here to visit our website - www.readingwithyourkids.com

Kimberly McLeod is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate Cut & Color Crafts for Kids. Kimberly loves creating all sorts of crafting activities that she shares with families on her Best Ideas For Kids website. She wants parents and grandparents to know how much fun it is to craft with your kids, and her new books features easy ways to craft with kids, recycle materials and inspire imagi...

Chloe Goodhart is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her two new beautiful Birding For Babies #BoardBooks. These books are a wonderful way to help our youngest kids learn their colors and numbers and fall in love with nature. Click here to learn more about Chloe's books - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2256772/chloe-goodhart/ Click here to visit our website - www.reading...

Avigail Gimpel is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her #ParentingBook Hyper Healing. Avigail tells us that HyperHealing is your complete ADHD coaching program and parenting guide in one book. She wants to support parents who want to find real solutions that will help their kids with ADHD thrive. Click here to visit Avigail's website - https://www.hyperhealing.org/adhd-parenting-bo...

Danica Davidson is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate "I Will Protect You, A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz" Danica wrote this book with Eva Mozes Kor, who, with her sister Miriam, was one of only 160 twins to have survived the unimaginable cruelty of the Nazi regime, while also eventually finding healing and the capacity to forgive. Click here to visit Danica's website...

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich & Donna Limerick are on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate Mae Makes A Way. This new biographical #PictureBook tells the story of fashion icon, and Donna's mom, Mae Reeves. Mae had a dream to make one-of-a-kind hats. But the path for a Black female designer was unclear, so Mae made a way, leaving her home in the segregated South to study at the Chicago Sch...

Bob Shea and Brian Won are on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate their hilarious new #BoardBook series Adurable. This is an irresistible new board book series filled with cute pups, big construction trucks, and laugh-out-loud humor! Bob and Brian are tremdously talented, and this is a tremendously fun and funny conversation. Click here to visit Bob's website - https://www.bobshea.com/...

Suchi Sairam is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her #ChildrensBook Dancin Deepa. Suchi tells us this story is about a girl named Deepa who loves to dance. She studies a dance from India called Bharatanatyam that is like moving poetry! But since her dance is different from what her friends at school do, she isn't sure if she should share it. Click here to visit Suchi's website - h...

Author J P Miller is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her biography of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first African American Woman to become a physician in the United States. This biography is part of JP's Leaders Like Us Series. The biography of Dr Crumpler was of special interest to us as she practiced medicine here in our home neighborhood of Readville back in the time of the Civil...

Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Rhett Miller is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate his delightfully fun #PictureBook The Baby Changing Station. We have a fun & funny conversation about the inspiration for the book, how unglamorous the life of a touring performer can be and the joy of connecting with an audience. Click here to visit Rhett's website - https://rhettmiller.com/ Click here t...

Margot Denemme is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to inspire us all to celebrate the beauty each one of us possess. Margot practices criminal law in Toronto. After publishing Mommy, am I pretty? and attending a number of schools to speak with students about its message, Margot recognized the need to develop a book that would reach both boys and girls. Awesome, Inside + Out! is designed to ini...

Award winning writer and former chief White House correspondent Ben Feller is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate his debut #PictureBook Big Problems, Little Problems. Ben's most important title – Sam Feller's dad – is the one that drove him to write Big Problems, Little Problems, a father-son tale about conquering life's frustrations together. The book is built on Ben's love of pare...

Stephen Bench Capon is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate his debut #PictureBook Oslo, Or The Whale Whose Tale Looks A Lot Like A Wellington Boot. Stephen tells us that Oslo is the only whale he knows whose tail looks a bit like a wellington  boot. Not that it matters, but then again, Oslo's tail seems to be at  the root of all kinds of unexpected events. Along the way, Oslo learns...

Heather Lyn Davis returns to the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her latest #PIctureBook Jake The Ape Makes Lots Of Mistakes. Heather wants to help families to teach their kids to have a growth mindset, to empower them to experiment, to know that a mistake can be the first step towards success. Click here to visit Heather's website - www. Heathershelpfulstories.com Click here to visit o...

Barbara Tibbetts returns to the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate the latest title in her LOOKBook Scavenger Hunt series called Nature Walk. Barbara wants us to all to slow down and LOOK at the ordinary things around you in a new way with The LOOK Book: a scavenger hunt in a book! Unlike her city specific hunts this scavenger hunt in a book can be completed anywhere. Click here to visit B...

Evelyn Otulola Logan is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her beautiful #PictureBook On The Streets Of Ondo. Evelyn tells us this is a story about generational storytelling and relatioThree friends go out on an adventure to find the Deruba man, a scary man who lives in Ondo, Nigeria and makes people disappear if they go out at night. Will our three brave friends find him? Click her...

11 year old author Natasha Huemer is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her debut #PictureBook Puppy's Garden Adventure. Natasha talks about what is was like writing the book and how her friends are reacting to it. We are also joined by author & special needs teacher Anita Kay Newman celebrating her book Clark the Colorblind Chameleon. Anita hopes this book will inspire kids with le...

Linda Meeker is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her new #PictureBook Thank You, Mama. Linda tells us Thank You, Mama will delight parents and kids alike as it follows a little boy exploring different foods—from vegetables to sushi—and trying to pick his favorite. The bookencourages children to try new foods and become happy, healthy eaters and     models respect, manners, and tha...

School counselor and author Cassie D'Addeo is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her debut #PictureBook Riley and Milo. Cassie tells us this book is designed to help us navigate conversations regarding grief and loss with our kids. Cassie also talks about how we can answer questions our kids might have about school shootings and other acts of violence our kids might hear about. Clic...