Storyland Podcast

In this episode, we have Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, who is a marine biologist, author, and water-lover. He is the writer of the picture book Dear Wild Child. In the book, a father writes to his daughter in a heartfelt letter about memories of the house she grew up in among the redwoods. The house was lost to a wildfire but as the father lovingly reminds the child, she will always carry her home insid...

从虎年到兔年啦！作为过去一年全球童书创作者采访的总结，我们向五位童书研究员提出了三个问题。 她们在回答中，分别用声音回顾了各自采访创作者的收获，还通过文字推荐了个人年度印象最深刻的采访和童书（在公共号“三明治童书研究所”中可以查看）。 这是我们五个女生的首次隔空同框，感谢大家的陪伴！ 新年希望和大家一起探索更多有趣的故事！新年快乐！

Petr Horáček is a renowned author and illustrator for children’s books. He was born in Czechoslovakia and went to England in his twenties. Now he lives in Worcester with his family.  Petr has recently been nominated for Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration for his latest picture book The Perfect Present. In the past 22 years, Petr has published over 60 picture books and board books. His...

Felicita was born in Rome but grew up in Perth, Australia. She graduated with Honours in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia. She moved back to Italy in 2007, where she taught herself illustration and very slowly started making picture books. Over the years, she collaborated on various papercut animations with her husband, animator Gianluca Maruotti . She now works as a full-time i...

Marc Martin is an award-winning artist and picture book author and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Having trained and worked as a graphic designer, his moonlighting as an illustrator eventually led him to a successful freelance career. Marc draws inspiration from his surroundings, nature, animals, and the city he lives in. His book A River was awarded a Best Illustrated Picture Boo...

Benji Davies is the award-winning author and illustrator of The Storm Whale and  Grandad’s Island. His latest picturebook The Snowflake   tells the tale of one snowflake and one little girl - both longing for something and looking for their own special place in the world. In this episode, Benji shares his inspiration behind this fun and beautiful winter tale. 【嘉宾 Guest】 Benji Da...

Morag Hood is a Scottish writer and illustrator of children's books. Her primary medium is lino printing, although she uses a variety of techniques in her work. Her stories rely on interplay between text and illustration, creating space in the narrative for young readers to fill in. Many of her stories concern relationships, inclusion and prejudice. She has an MA in children's book illustration fr...

Micha Archer wrote and illustrated Ezra Jack Keats Award winner Daniel Finds a Poem and its companion,Daniel’s Good Day, and has also illustrated several picture books, includingGirl Running(by Annette Bay Pimentel). Micha works in oil and collage on paper she creates with homemade stamps and layered tissue paper. She came from a long line of artists and teachers and taught for many years in a kin...

Kyo Maclear’s  children’s books have been published in over twenty countries and nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In this episode, Kyo talks about her inspiration and writing process for Virginia Wolf, a story about  about a little girl named Virginia who wake...

Nina Laden is an award-winning, best-selling author and illustrator for children's picture books, including the famous board book Peek-a Who? and also  poetry picture books, such as If You Had a Little Dream , Once Upon a Memory , Dear Little One , and so on. In our interview together, Nina talked about her inspirations and backstory behind her picture books, her love of poetry writing,...

Elizabeth Dulemba is an award-winning illustrator, author, professor, blogger, and speaker (her TED Talk  has over a million views on YouTube). She has over three-dozen books to her credit, including her debut novel, A Bird on Water Street , awarded Georgia Author of the Year. In this episode, we mainly talked about the stories behind her novel A bird on Water Street, her amazing life stories...

Eliza Wheeler is the illustrator-author of Home in the Woods and the NYT bestselling picture book Miss Maple’s Seeds. In this episode, Eliza talks about her inspiration and creative process behind Home in the Woods which is a story based on her grandmother's childhood living in an old shack in the woods during the Great Depression. Find out how she was able to create a picture book that touches on...

Paddy Donnelly is a picture book illustrator and author, originally from Ireland and now based in Belgium. Paddy grew up on the Irish coast and has been fascinated with the natural world since he was a child. In this episode, he talks about the creative process behind the two books that infused nature with imagination and how he was able to keep his own inner creative side through writing and illu...

3:57 “75%的年轻人觉得未来是可怕的” 11:13 气候变化与我们孩子有什么关系？ 13:08 面对气候危机，作为大人可以做的五件事 20:05 孩子识别自然物种的正确率比识别神奇宝贝更低  27:00 最好的自然教育是孩子给予我们的 33:58 相比科学数据，故事的力量更能感染我们行动 39:01 地球是个“小蓝点” 49:58 对生态危机的焦虑也是“生态关怀” 节目中提到的童书： 《The Hike》（中文译名：《去郊游》） 《The Lost Words》 《Plasticus...

欢迎收听三明治童书研究所播客。这是一档研究全球优秀童书并分享阅读文化的节目，我们希望用故事的力量，赋能更多的儿童与成年人。 2022年4.23日，世界读书日，也是三明治童书研究所成立一周年。同时，它也是一个普通到不能再普通的春日周末。但如果你和我们一样，最近生活在上海，我想，心情难免是低落的。 在今天的节目中，我们邀请到了一些爱读童书的大人们，当然也包括三明治童书研究所的小伙伴们。我们将通过文字和声音，分享...

Sarah Roberts is an animal behaviourist, environmentalist, and author of Somebody Swallowed Stanley. Her passion for adventures in the wild led her to conservation and environmental education work. In the episode, you will hear about the story of a plastic bag called Stanley, how Sarah first got the idea for creating him, and how she 'tricked' classroom children into believing a floating plastic b...

Ana Pêgo's project Plasticus Maritimus draws awareness to the impact of plastic on life on our planet. She collects plastic found on the beach and creates beautiful art out of them. In this episode, Ana shares with us her experience growing up by the ocean and how she first gained awareness of plastic pollution. You will hear about how children and adults alike can become more conscious of th...

Child, you are awake! You are alive! You are a bright star, Inside our hearts. Award-winning Mexican-American author and illustrator Yuyi Morales  presents us her new book Bright Star which is a beautiful tribute to the borderlands between Mexico and the US. But as you'll hear in this episode, there is so many more heartaches behind this story that Yuyi weaved into its reassuring words and in...

她是《纽约时报》畅销童书榜单上的长销作者，获得了2次凯迪克银奖，2次苏斯博士银奖，《纽约时报》最佳插画奖，《波士顿环球报》最佳绘本奖等诸多殊荣。但创作绘本并不是Laura的第一份工作。她的绘本大多是采用了模切技术的概念绘本，总是充满惊喜，让人眼前一亮。在成为绘本作家和插画师之前，她在电视台工作了十多年，担任动画师、设计师、编辑、制片人等角色，为NBC（国家广播公司）和ABC（美国广播公司）制作了不少节目开场动...

本期节目，我们邀请了老朋友Mac Barnett聊一聊他的新书《What is Love?》。Mac刚刚升级做爸爸不久，这个新身份对他创作童书有影响吗？受什么启发写了《What is Love？》？他记忆中被爱的体验是什么样的？更多精彩内容请收听本期节目吧！

Matthew Forsythe is the author-illustrator of Pokko and the Drum, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a recipient of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book. He is also an illustrator for animated films and television such as Adventure Time, The Midnight Gospel. In this episode, Matthew shared the inspiration behind his picture book Pokko and the Drum. You...

Carson Ellis is the author and illustrator of the bestselling picture books  Home, In the half Room  and  Du Iz Tak?  (a Caldecott Honor book and the recipient of an E.B. White Read Aloud Award). She has illustrated a number of kids books as well. Apart from making children's books, she 's the illustrator-in-residence for her husband Colin Meloy's band, The Decemberists, and re...

Jessie Oliveros is the author of the Golden Kite Award picture book The Remember Balloons. The heartwarming story likens memories to helium-filled balloons and explains in a tender way how as a person ages, they sometimes lose their memories just like how balloons would slip away from their hands. As you will hear in the interview, the book is inspired by Jessie's grandfather who had Alzheimer's d...

Livia Blackburne is the author of the emotionally and culturally rich picture book I Dream of Popo. The story is about when a young girl and her family emigrate from Taiwan China to America, she leaves behind her beloved popo, her grandmother. She misses her popo every day, but even if their visits are fleeting, their love is ever true and strong. In this conversation, Livia shared her story behin...

【Guest】Canadian Author and illustrator-- Barbara Reid One thing unique about her works is that her illustrations are made by plasticine so the images are very vivid and full of details, and the language is so poetic! Barbara has received many awards, including the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, The Governor General’s Award for Illustration for&nbs...