309 || Baby Gabriel Recommends

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by Bookshelf staffer and online sales coordinator, Lucy Stoltzfus. Lucy's son Gabriel just celebrated his first birthday so in honor of him, the two will discuss Gabriel's reading tastes and see what books are his current favorites. Some of the books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf: Down the Back of the Chair by Margaret Mahy Harry Maclary by Lynley Dodd Jam Jam books Greedy Python by Eric Carle Pigeon Needs a Bath by Mo Willems Nanette Baguette by Mo Willems Won’t You Be My Neighbor by Mr. Rogers It’s You I Like by Mr. Rogers Hello Neighbor by Mr. Rogers Goodnight Veggies by Diana Murray and Zachariah OHora Vegetables Wear Underpants Vegetables in Underwear The One, Two, Three of Thankfulness ABCs of Kindness Ellie Holcomb When I Pray For You by Matthew Turner Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd Found Snowy Day Dress Can’t Dance Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown 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. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. 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 reading Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins and Lucy is reading Love and Fury by Samanatha Silva. 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 media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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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.
0:07.0	There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
0:15.0	There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
0:30.0	Marcel Proust
0:32.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:37.4	Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by bookshelf staffer and online sales coordinator Lucy Stoltzfus.
0:43.4	Lucy's son Gabriel just celebrated his first birthday, so we thought it would be a good time to check in on his reading tastes and see what books are his current favorites.
0:52.4	Hi, Lucy. Hello, Gabriel is upstairs napping, but he would say gaga.
0:59.4	We have gotten, I don't know if I told you this, but we have gotten requests for this because about
1:06.4	gosh, I was trying, I should have done the math. Was it, I guess it would have been 18 months ago.
1:11.4	You came on the podcast, maybe it was a year ago, and talked about Gabriel's favorite books, maybe it was a year ago.
1:17.4	Gabriel's a little bit older now, and so specifically one of our customers emailed and she was like,
1:22.4	I listened to the podcast and I liked Lucy's picks, but I really want to know what Gabriel's favorites are.
1:31.4	Well, it's like, okay, good news. Gabriel has opinions now.
1:36.4	Okay, I think she was assuming that would be the case.
1:39.4	So today we are going to do a deep dive into sweet Gabriel's brain, and we're going to talk about his favorite books and you're kind of going to guide us through that.
1:48.4	So let's get started.
1:50.4	Okay, I hate to start this way because I have just been looking this up and we actually cannot get any of these books from our distributor.
2:01.4	We might be able to get something from our use book distributor, but anyway, his very favorite books are by two New Zealand authors.
2:10.4	And this is because I am from New Zealand. I was born there.
2:15.4	And so he's been reading my old books, like they say in the front cover.
2:19.4	This book belongs to Lucy Church.
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