Podcasts: Results for Tag: “children“

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Kirsten Gillibrand | Bold and Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote

• Recorded Dec 13, 2018

In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak. On the eve of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduces children to ten… more

Author Events Biography & Autobiography Children Politics General Research History
Maxwell King | The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers with David Newell “Mr. McFeely” of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

• Recorded Sep 24, 2018

In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood as we welcome Maxwell King, author of The Good Neighbor , a personal, professional, and artistic biography of Fred Rogers. A figure as… more

Author Events Biography & Autobiography Children Education Performing Arts
Junot Díaz | Islandborn

• Recorded Apr 7, 2018

Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , the “unruly, manic, seductive” ( Esquire ) multigenerational tale of a cursed Dominican family. He is also the author of the… more

Author Events Children Family Literature New Americans Humanities
Matt de la Peña and Loren Long | Love

• Recorded Jan 27, 2018

Watch the video here . Matt de la Peña was awarded the Newbery Medal and a Caldecott Honor for Last Stop on Market Street , a children’s book that highlighted volunteerism, income inequality, and other topics not often addressed by the genre. The… more

Author Events Children Family Fiction Literature Read by 4th
Jennifer Weiner | Little Bigfoot, Big City

• Recorded Oct 28, 2017

Watch the video here . Jennifer Weiner is the “funny, fierce, feisty” ( Glamour ) no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels that dive headlong into the ups and downs of relationships, careers, and family dynamics. With… more

Author Events Children Fiction Teens
Douglas Brunt | Trophy Son in conversation with Megyn Kelly

• Recorded Jun 26, 2017

Watch the video here . In conversation with Megyn Kelly, host of Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly Ghosts of Manhattan , Douglas Brunt’s New York Times bestselling debut novel about a flawed but highflying Bear Stearns bond trader, took “a smart shot… more

Author Events Children Family Fiction Literature Sports & Recreation
Evelyn Coleman | Freedom Train

• Recorded Oct 14, 2016

It’s 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train—a train that is traveling to all forty-eight states carrying the country’s most important documents, including the Declaration of… more

African American Children Fiction History
Jamie Lee Curtis | This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are & Where We Came From

• Recorded Sep 18, 2016

One of film’s most compelling presences since her screen debut almost 40 years ago, Jamie Lee Curtis’ diverse résumé includes roles in Halloween , Trading Places , A Fish Called Wanda , Freaky Friday , and True Lies , for which she won a best… more

Author Events Children Movies & Television Performing Arts
Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming

• Recorded Apr 29, 2015

The author of more than two dozen books for young adults, Jacqueline Woodson has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors, as well as the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her… more

African American Author Events Biography & Autobiography Children Family Literature