ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Host Jordan Lloyd Bookey speaks with authors and reading enthusiasts to explore ways to build a stronger culture of reading in our communities. They'll dive into their personal experiences, inspirations, and why their stories and ideas are connecting so well with kids.
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37 minutes
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English
United States
86 episodes
since Aug. 17, 2022
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~62.40% of listeners are from United States.
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Three years strong, y’all! We’re back with our favorite tradition: The Reading Culture Yearbook.
As we close out 2025, we’ve gathered superlatives and stories that celebrate some of the memorable authors who joined us on the show this year.
This year’s edition features awards such as “Most Revolu…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
“When we are making books, we are making little homes for our readers that they can return to hopefully again and again and again, just as we return to books and find a sense of home, we return to the person we once were, when we were reading that book.” — Sophie Blackall
Home. It’s something we sp…
“The library is where I felt, I'm safe here. I have friends in Encyclopedia Brown, Junie B. Jones, Amelia Bedelia, Stanley Yelnats, and all these various characters. I think that's the beauty. That's the sanctuary, the sacredness of that physical space.” – Mychal Threets
Mychal Threets grew up amon…
“It's important that my perspective stays flexible because my perspective could need updating, it could need to be changed based on new information.” — Nic Stone
Nic Stone isn’t interested in staying in her lane.
A #1 New York Times bestselling author, her young adult novels—Dear Martin, Chaos The…
“It’s that old expression that I love, which is ‘wherever you go, there you are.’ So you never really get out of the limbo, because the limbo is you.” — Erin Entrada Kelly
There are seasons when life slows down, even as our minds continue to race. When we find ourselves caught somewhere between mot…
“This is what awe always does: it’s the zoom out. All of a sudden, you can see how tiny and insignificant you are, and you plug into that bigger thing” - Kate DiCamillo
When was the last time you were so captivated by the beauty of the world around you that it stopped you in your tracks? Kate DiCam…
"I don’t want to be whatever version of masculinity y’all keep telling me I have to be. Why are all the benchmarks violent and aggressive? I don’t wanna do it. I’m not interested” — Jason ReynoldsWe all inherit scripts about who we’re supposed to be. For boys, they often center on toughness, aggres…
“When you're a kid, you have so little control over things. To be the big entity controlling the smaller entity, whether it's dolls or [toy] soldiers or whatever it is, they do what you tell them to do. They become the story you are making.” — Brian Selznick
We all want to feel in control, mold our…
”Why are some people treated differently? Why are some people chosen ones for no particular reason? And why do some people get to have that extra shine?” — Victoria Aveyard
Unfairness is a pervasive theme in a lot of fantasy fiction. With battles between good and evil dominating title after title, …
“Whenever I think of people who have gone through something, I'm always like, but they were human before this. Before they were monsters, they were human. Before they were zombies, they were human.” — Tiffany D. JacksonSome of the most unsettling monsters don’t come from nightmares or ghost stories…
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