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Families Are Beautiful, No Matter What They Look Like Aug 18, 2022

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Tom Tracy is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate his #PictureBook Scoochie & Skiddles: Scoochie's Adoption Story. Tom tells us that this beautiful and heart warming book focuses on the adoption experience that brought the author's real life family together. Scoochie is based on Tom and his husband's experience adopting his oldest daughter. The spirit of the book is to honor all family types and structures.

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The Boy Who Loved Maps Aug 17, 2022

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Author Kari Allen and illustrator G Brian Karas are on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate their new #PictureBook The Boy Who Loved Maps. Our guests tell us this enchanting picture book is about a map-making boy who is stumped when a girl asks him for a map of the "perfect place" helps listenrs appreciate the charms of their own neighborhood—and even shows them how to make a map of it!

Click here to visit Kari's website - https://www.kariallenwrites.com/books

Click here to visit Brian's website - http://gbriankaras.com/booktitles.html

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Madison Morris Is Not A Mouse Aug 16, 2022

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Kathryn Holmes is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her new #ChapterBook Madison Morris Is Not A Mouse. Kathryn tells us this is the third book in her series set in Mrs. Norrell's second grade classroom. This is a special class that has magic that allows kids to transform into animals to learn important life lessons. Each book follows a different kid and their animal transformation and includes fun natural science facts about the featured animal in the back matter.

Click here to visit Kathryn's website - https://www.kathrynholmes.com/madison-morris-is-not-a-mouse

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No One Gets Anywhere Alone Aug 15, 2022

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Susan Combs is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate Pancakes for Roger: A Mentorship Guide for Slaying Dragons. Susan tells us this is a series of quick, straightforward stories delivered with no fluff and a whole lot of heart, lessons learned from her father, Roger, and others so that you can lean on them, too, as you set out to slay your own dragons.

Click here to visit Susan's website - https://www.pancakesforroger.com/

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Footprints Across The Planet Aug 14, 2022

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Our Dean of All Things STEM & STEAM Jennifer Swanson returns to the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her debut #PictureBook Footprints Across The Planet. Jennifer is excited that her new book will be inspiring a younger audience to be curious about the World around them and to be excited about the STEM fields. Jennifer also gives us an update on what is happening on her Solve It For Kids Podcast.

Click here to visit Jennifer's website - www.jenniferswaansonbooks.com

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Our NICU Journey Aug 13, 2022

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Sarah Immonem Ward is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her debut picture book Our NICU Journey. All three of Sarah's children spent the first days, and in some cases months, of their lives in a NICU (Neonatal intensive care unit). Sarah tells us she published this book encourage NICU families and promote reading to newborns. She tells us of the many benefits of reading to newborns, and the importance of giving back. She wants kids who have spent time in a NICU to know they were born fighters.

Click here to visit Sarah's website - https://www.littlewardbooks.com/

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Patch Of Sky Aug 12, 2022

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Nic Yulo is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate her debut #PictureBook Patch Of Sky. Nic tells us this is a delightfully unique friendship story about a fiercely determined girl will do anything to help her best pig friend finally see the sky. Nic is a versitile storyteller and we have a fascinating conversation about the differences and similarities between telling stories through film, picture books and video games

Click here to visit Nic's website - https://www.nicyulo.com/books.html

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Mikey McMonsterson Goes To School Aug 11, 2022

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Corey Wolff returns to the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate his latest #ChildrensBook Mikey McMonsterson Goes To School. Corey tells us Mikey is friendly to children, likes taking bubble baths, and enjoys smelling flowers. But this sweet little monster does not fit in the land of Monsterville. All of the other monsters make fun of him. So Mikey decides to run away from home. When a boy discovers that Mikey has been living under his bed, they become friends. Children will learn that monsters don't have to be scary, even the ones that might be hiding in their room.

Click here to visit Corey's website - https://www.coreywolff.com/

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We Still Choose Love Aug 10, 2022

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We are resharing our conversation with Scarlett Lewis. Scarlett is the mother of Jesse Lewis who was killed in his first grade classroom during the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 along with 19 classmates and 6 teachers and administrators in one of the worst school shootings in US history. She founded of The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation in honor of Jesse and to spread a message he left on their kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died, Nurturing Healing Love, the formula for choosing love, and to promote social and emotional education in schools as well as a consistent message of compassion in our communities.

Click here to visit the Choose Love website - https://chooselovemovement.org/

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Pizza My Heart Aug 09, 2022

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Mika Song is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate the upcoming release of her latest #GraphicNovel for Young Kids Pizza My Heart, Mika Song writes and illustrates children's books about sweetly funny outsiders. She grew up in the Philippines and Hawaii and lives in Queens, New York. Her squirrel characters, Norma and Belly, appear every week in a comic strip on Sundayhaha.com, a free kids comics newsletter. She loves making comics with kids in schools and drawing on paper.

Click here to visit Mika's website - https://mikasongdraws.com/about

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