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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week, Annie is joined by Olivia, The Bookshelf manager, children and young adult lit specialist and leader of Dumbledore’s Army, to discuss books kids like to read. The books mentioned on today’s podcast are available for purchase through The Bookshelf: Alien Superstar by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver Middle School Bites by Steven Banks Confessions of a Dork Lord by Mike Johnston A Flicker of Courage by Deb Caletti Mightier Than the Sword by Drew Callander and Alana Harrison The Day I Was Erased by Lisa Thompson Voyage of the Frostheart by Jamie Littler The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer Allies by Alan Gratz Brother's Keeper by Julie Lee The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk Broken Strings by Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer Coo by Kaela Noel From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is still reading Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi and Olivia is reading The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free shipping on all your online orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South. You're going to do. When I was 10 I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.
0:38.0	Now that I am 50, I read them openly.
0:41.0	When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of
0:45.3	childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
0:48.1	CS Lewis. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookhelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:56.0	And today I'm talking with bookstore manager Olivia Schaefer about children's books.
1:01.0	Kids will actually read and maybe you will too.
1:03.4	Hi Olivia. Hey welcome back I feel like it's been a while since you've been on the main
1:09.1	I know I I was just thinking I feel like it was when you came back from Winter Institute if I'm not mistaken.
1:17.0	Oh man pre-Covid!
1:19.0	Like right before.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:22.0	I'm surprised I didn't bring it back. We talked about pencils.
1:24.8	We talked about pencils. A $300 pencil. Oh we have that was so good and
1:30.5	feels truly like another lifetime. It feels like another lifetime.
1:33.2	It feels like last year.
1:34.5	Yeah, it does.
1:35.5	Yeah, it wasn't.
1:37.2	Nope.
1:38.2	Because truly I think right when I got back from Winter Institute everything kind of, I think we had maybe February
1:44.4	Institute January. January. Okay. So I think we had February.
1:47.6	February felt normal. Our last event in store event was Galentine's day.
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