Book Club for Kids
Summary: The place where young readers meet to talk about books. The show includes a celebrity reader and an interview with the author. The host is award winning public radio journalist Kitty Felde. Book Club won the Literacy in Media Award.
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Podcasts:
Fred Gipson's classic tale of a Texas hound dog "Old Yeller" is the book discussed by a trio of students from Lafayette Elementary School in Washington, DC. Australian canine expert Mia Cobb joins us. Texas actor Mike McKinley is our celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
Kids across the country feel Halloween in the air as they suggest great books to host Kitty Felde.
Recorded live at Virginia's Fall for the Book Festival, our trio of readers Jay, Neha and Naomi discuss Mary Amato's novel "Our Teacher is a Vampire and Other (Not) True Stories." Topics range from writing to the world's worst substitute teachers. Actor Jonathan Cagle-Mulberg is our celebrity reader. The kids ask Mary Amato about the book. Kitty Felde is host.
Members of the Girlfriends Book Club of Baltimore discuss Robbie Shell's tale of bees and partnership "Bees on the Roof." Shell answers questions from young readers. DC actress Grace Baker is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host. The show was taped live from the Enoch Pratt Free Library Children's Stage at the 2016 Baltimore Book Festival.
Kids from around the country - and Canada - share their favorite books.
Students from DC's Jefferson Academy discuss Kristin Levine's novel about what happened in Arkansas the year after the Little Rock Nine desegregated Central High School. US Education Secretary John King is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
A trio of Maryland readers discuss boarding schools, magic, and swear words in children's literature as they discuss Esther Goldenberg's novel "Hypatia Academy." Kitty Felde is host.
Students at Academia Cotopaxi in Ecuador weigh in on what they're reading.
Kids from Capitol Hill discuss Kwame Alexander's Newbery Award-winning novel in verse about brothers and basketball "The Crossover." LA Laker Tarik Black is the celebrity reader. With host Kitty Felde.
Great summer reading recommendations
4th and 5th grade members of the Bookopolis Book Club discuss their favorite books.
A mashup of ogres and secret agents are at the center of writer Linda Urban's novel MILO SPECK, ACCIDENTAL AGENT. Actor Dan Frischman from "Head of the Class" is celebrity reader. Chicago 6th graders at the Blackstone Memorial Library discuss the book, magical powers, and dealing with girls with host Kitty Felde.
We kick off our summer reading with a visit to the Nantucket Book Festival to ask our favorite question, "What's your favorite book?"
Imagine walking to school in 20 degree cold, milking cows in a barn in rural Maine, having a baby when you're just a kid yourself. That's the world created by Gary D. Schmidt in "Orbiting Jupiter." Students from Chicago discuss the novel and U.S. Senator Angus King from Maine is the celebrity reader.
Live from the 2016 Gaithersburg Book Festival, six middle grade students discuss Gennifer Choldenko's Newbery Honor book "Al Capone Does My Shirts." NPR's Jack Speer is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
