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 "Not every book is for every child, but for every child there is a book." The Children’s Book Review, is a resource devoted to children’s literature and literacy. In the Growing Readers Podcast, we produce author and illustrator interviews focused on the best books for kids of all ages. We help parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers, and librarians to grow readers.The Children's Book Review Arte Storia e critica della letteratura
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  • Book Time Before Bedtime: Greg Pizzoli on Rituals, Rhythm, and Reading Aloud

    Book Time Before Bedtime: Greg Pizzoli on Rituals, Rhythm, and Reading Aloud
    Nov 2 2026
    In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast, host Bianca Schulze sits down with Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning author-illustrator Greg Pizzoli to talk about When the Sun Goes Down, his gentle, rhythmic bedtime book that has earned starred reviews from Kirkus, The Horn Book, and Publishers Weekly. As a young girl asks the creatures around her where they go at night, the story builds toward a question for every child listening: Where do you go when the sun goes down?The book began in 2021, as Greg rocked his infant daughter in a dark room during sleep training. When the refrain came to him, he reached for a pen and wrote it on the back of a receipt. Along the way, Greg shares how those late-night moments inspired his first bedtime book, why he thinks of picture books as performances, and how a printmaker’s eye shaped its cozy, layered art.Read the transcript on The Children’s Book Review (coming soon).Highlights:The Receipt in His Pocket: How a line that came to Greg during sleep training became the seed of the bookBecoming a Reader: Why Arnold Lobel’s “Strange Bumps” from Owl at Home made Greg fall in love with readingWhy Kids Are the Ideal Audience: What a room of preschoolers and a talking bone reveal about young readers’ openness to storyThe Power of “No!”: How Margaret Wise Brown’s The Quiet Noisy Book inspired the interactive turn that gives the story its payoffThe Worm That Didn’t Make the Cut: The nocturnal fact that sent Greg back to the drawing tableRead It Aloud: How school visits and fresh ears show Greg what’s working and what’s draggingThinking in Layers: How Greg created each image from five ink drawings, drawing on his background in screen printingCreative Restlessness: Why Greg keeps changing his process, and how he approached Night Night Crocodile, the sequel to The Watermelon SeedTime Blobbing and LEGO: The daily habits that keep his studio life on track and give his brain a breakThe Sacred Bedtime Routine: How dance parties, book picks, and borrowed insults become part of a family’s shared languageNotable Quotes:“I think kids are really the ideal audience, honestly.” —Greg Pizzoli“You need to read your work aloud.” —Greg Pizzoli“Every book, you start from scratch, even if it’s a sequel.” —Greg Pizzoli“Read to your kids. Support local independent bookstores if you can. And if you’re writing, read your work aloud as much as you possibly can.” —Greg PizzoliBooks Mentioned:When the Sun Goes Down by Greg Pizzoli: Amazon | Bookshop.orgThe Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli: Amazon | Bookshop.orgOwl at Home by Arnold Lobel: Amazon | Bookshop.orgThe Amazing Bone by William Steig: Amazon | Bookshop.orgThe Quiet Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown: AmazonThe Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood: Amazon | Bookshop.orgGood Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann: Amazon | Bookshop.orgAbout Greg Pizzoli:Greg Pizzoli is the author and illustrator of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award books The Watermelon Seed, Good Night Owl, The Book Hog, and Earl and Worm: The Big Mess and other stories. He is also the creator of the Baloney and Friends graphic novel series. He lives in Philadelphia.Visit: https://www.gregpizzoli.com/ and https://gregpizzoli.substack.com/Credits:Host: Bianca SchulzeGuest: Greg PizzoliProducer: Bianca Schulze
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    49 min
  • Caldecott Winner Sophie Blackall on Bedtime Reading, Family Jokes, and Books That Last

    Caldecott Winner Sophie Blackall on Bedtime Reading, Family Jokes, and Books That Last
    Oct 20 2026
    In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast, host Bianca Schulze sits down with two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall to talk about Stella & Marigold: Past and Presents, the third book in her early chapter book series with Annie Barrows, and Story Rug, her new picture book illustrated by Phoebe Wahl. From a mysterious drawing hidden behind the sofa to a classroom braiding scraps of fabric into something extraordinary, both books celebrate the stories we carry and the people we make them with.Sophie shares how Stella and Marigold were born on one of her annual writing retreats with Annie, and why the two set out to write a sibling relationship built on kindness rather than rivalry. She also opens up about what it felt like to hand her own manuscript to another illustrator for the first time, and why the pictures she’d seen so clearly in her head simply “evaporated” once Phoebe’s drawings arrived.📖 Read the transcript on The Children’s Book Review: (coming soon)HighlightsRapid-fire warm-up: Pavlova, Blackwing pencils, a traveling Chinese inkstone, and a studio mess that rates a ten.Twenty-plus years with Annie Barrows: From Ivy + Bean to Stella & Marigold, and the morning walks that come before coffee.Cool colors and hot colors: Why Stella is drawn in blues and Marigold bursts off the page in reds, yellows, and oranges.The hurdle between head and page: Sophie’s encouragement for kids, and grown-ups, to keep drawing even when the result doesn’t match the picture in their mind.Specificity over sameness: Why real, quirky details matter more than ever in a world of AI-generated art.Ziamara and the elastic nature of time: How Past and Presents explores the children who came before us and those who will come after.Procreate and Paperlike: How Sophie keeps her digital work feeling like pencil and paint.Letting go with Story Rug: Why handing the pictures to Phoebe Wahl felt like “water through my fingers.”Braiding parties and a very catchy song: How Story Rug has inspired real rag rugs in classrooms and bookstores.Notable Quotes“Let’s lean into the weird gristly knobbly bits.” —Sophie Blackall“Books are by nature collaborative, and I think that’s why we love them so much.” —Sophie Blackall“You can be each other’s greatest ally.” —Sophie BlackallBooks MentionedStella & Marigold: Past and Presents by Annie Barrows, illustrated by Sophie Blackall: Amazon | Bookshop.orgStory Rug by Sophie Blackall, illustrated by Phoebe Wahl: Amazon | Bookshop.orgStella & Marigold (Book 1) by Annie Barrows, illustrated by Sophie Blackall: Amazon | Bookshop.orgIvy + Bean by Annie Barrows, illustrated by Sophie Blackall: Amazon | Bookshop.orgFarmhouse by Sophie Blackall: Amazon | Bookshop.orgHello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall: Amazon | Bookshop.orgCharlie & Mouse by Laurel Snyder, illustrated by Emily Hughes: Amazon | Bookshop.orgUnder Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas: Amazon | Bookshop.orgAbout Sophie BlackallSophie Blackall is a two-time Caldecott Medalist and the illustrator of more than 60 books for children, including Finding Winnie, Hello Lighthouse, Farmhouse, and the bestselling Ivy + Bean series. Originally from Australia, she is also the founder of Milkwood, a creative retreat for the children’s book community in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Story Rug is her first picture book illustrated by another artist.Visit: https://www.sophieblackall.com/Credits: Host: Bianca Schulze | Guest: Sophie Blackall | Editor: Kelly Rink | Producer: Bianca Schulze
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    59 min
  • The Return of Bunns Rabbit: Oscar Winner and Pixar Animator Alan Barillaro on Hope, Feedback, and Growing Up

    The Return of Bunns Rabbit: Oscar Winner and Pixar Animator Alan Barillaro on Hope, Feedback, and Growing Up
    Oct 6 2026
    In this episode of The Growing Readers Podcast, host Bianca Schulze welcomes back Academy Award–winning director, writer, and Pixar animator Alan Barillaro to talk about the second book in his illustrated middle-grade series, Bunns Rabbit: The Return of the Spirit Rabbit. In this sweeping sequel, Bunns leaves her sheltered meadow for the sea and has to decide what kind of hero she will be in a world that isn't sure it wants one.Alan shares the story behind the story: the bedtime readings with his mother that inspired the book's dedication, why an Emily Dickinson poem about hope opens the book, and how a hopeful fox and a doubting albatross carry the idea that the future is never set. He also gets candid about craft, including how he handles feedback, how he gets through a bad creative day, and why he paints ten versions of an illustration. He closes with a first look at his upcoming picture book, Today Will Be Eaten.Read the transcript on ⁠The Children's Book Review.Highlights:Stopping at Gollum's Riddle: How Alan's mother read to four kids at once, and paused The Lord of the Rings mid-riddle so they could solve it overnight. That memory shaped both the dedication and the bedtime-read-aloud structure of Bunns Rabbit.From Belonging to Responsibility: Book one was about Bunns accepting who she is. In book two, she has to ask what she owes the wider world, a story that grows up alongside its readers.Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: Why Alan opens with Emily Dickinson, and how the fox and the albatross argue about whether the future is already written.Symptoms, Not Remedies: Alan's approach to feedback. He listens for where a reader got "bumped" instead of taking their suggested fix, which keeps a creator's unique voice intact.Bad Days and Ten Paintings: Saving research for the evening so a rough writing day sets up a good morning, and painting many versions of a piece so no single one becomes precious.Notable Quotes:"I see too many artists give up on that unique voice too quickly and take the quick fix. And the quick fix makes your story like everybody else, and it's not unique to you." —Alan Barillaro"My biggest hope would be a kid puts that down and says, you know what, I can read The Golden Compass... because I feel confident." —Alan BarillaroBooks Mentioned:Bunns Rabbit: The Return of the Spirit Rabbit by Alan Barillaro: ⁠Amazon⁠ | ⁠Bookshop.org⁠Bunns Rabbit by Alan Barillaro: ⁠Amazon⁠ | ⁠Bookshop.org⁠Where the Water Takes Us by Alan Barillaro: ⁠Amazon⁠ | ⁠Bookshop.org⁠Today We'll Be Eaten by Alan Barillaro: ⁠Amazon⁠ | ⁠Bookshop.org⁠About Alan Barillaro: Alan Barillaro is an Academy Award–winning director, writer, and animator who spent more than 25 years at Pixar Animation Studios. His directorial debut, the animated short Piper, won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. He is the author and illustrator of the novels Where the Water Takes Us and Bunns Rabbit, and his picture book Today Will Be Eaten is forthcoming.Visit: ⁠alanbarillaro.com⁠Credits: Host: Bianca Schulze / Guest: Alan Barillaro / Editor: Kelly Rink / Producer: Bianca Schulze
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    44 min
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