Elizabeth Bird

"I am perfectly willing to believe that this is a stupidflock." Kate challenges me to find her a new celebrity picture book. So Harvey Fierstein it is.

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I discuss the new picture book Oddbird with its creator Derek Desierto and premiere the book trailer.

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If you go looking for trouble then trouble is what you get. I talk with author Sarah Prineas about her newest, gooiest hero: a shapeshifter with puppydog eyes that lives up to their name: Trouble.

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Divorce Bollywood style. Today I talk with author Supriya Kelkar about musicals, culture, her new book That Thing About Bollywood, and what she'd select as her theme song for every time she walked in a room.

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Deeply touching, funny, and incredibly odd, this is the kind of picture book that gets you excited about picture books all over again.

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Today I pay homage to a couple of the books that I should have made more of an effort to praise properly when they first were published.

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Elizabeth Eulberg guest posts and shares a VERY 1989 Spotify playlist to accompay her latest book THE BEST WORST SUMMER.

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Want to instill Mars fever? Then you gotta catch this book.

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Kate and I discuss the many problematic elements of Paul Goble's 1979 Caldecott Award winner at length.

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