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Can I Get Kid Lit?

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Episode 7! This episode is all about kid lit, middle grade, and YA, so I invited in kid lit expert Karina Yan Glaser. Karina has had a varied career teaching and implementing literacy programs in family homeless shelters and recruiting healthcare professionals to volunteer in under resourced areas around the world. She is currently a contributing editor at Book Riot and an advocate for literacy in low-income neighborhoods in New York City. Follow her on Twitter @KarinaYanGlaser. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! I Am Scout by Charles Shields  I Am Malala (young reader’s edition) by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson The Boys in the Boat (Young Reader’s Edition) by Daniel James Brown Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson Holes by Louis Sachar Ungifted by Gordon Korman The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger The Girl who Circumnavigated FairyLand in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld Breakaway by Kat Spears The Crossover by Kwame Alexander The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck (not a kid’s book!) Little House in Brookfield by Maria D Wilkes (more here) Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia Not Norman by Kelly Bennett and Noah Z Jones (Board books I love: The Bear Snores On, Workman’s Indestructibles) Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena (Board books: Andy Warhol’s Colors by Susan Goldman Rubin; A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na) Sabriel series by Garth Nix Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a biweekly show for personalized reading

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recommendations. This is episode seven and we are recording on Monday, November 16th. I'm Amanda Nelson, your host and the managing editor of Book Riot,

0:42.3

and I am here with Karina Jan Glaser. Karina has had a very career teaching and implementing

0:47.3

literacy programs in family homeless shelters and recruiting healthcare professionals

0:51.3

to volunteer in under-resourced areas around the world.

0:59.4

She's currently a contributing editor at Book Riot, yay, and an advocate for literacy in low-income neighborhoods in New York. And you can follow her on Twitter. I will leave the link in the show

1:03.7

notes. It's just her name. So yeah, thank you so much for being on my show. Karina, I'm so happy

1:08.8

to have you. Excited. This episode is going to be all about Kidlet, which my kids are only four,

1:15.3

so I haven't really taken a deep dive into the Kidlet world. So I brought her on because she

1:20.3

knows so much more about it than I do. And that is kind of how this show works. So for those

1:25.4

of you who have not listened before, this is the write-in recommendation show. So if you have reading recommendations you need for yourself, for your book club, for gifts, for whatever, it doesn't matter. You can send them to me on Twitter at I'm Amanda Nelson, or you can email them to the show, which is get booked at bookriot.com. You can also go to Book Riot slash Get Booked and go into any of the previous

1:46.2

episodes. There's a form at the bottom of each post where you can drop in your question there as

1:52.0

well. Our next show coming up in December will be a holiday recommendation request show.

1:57.6

And Jen Northington, who is our events director and a part-time bookseller at Word,

2:01.7

will be back to help me with that. So if you are thinking about gifts that you want to give,

2:07.0

bookish gifts that you want to give to people for the holidays or you don't know what to get

2:11.2

someone, then just send us your questions. And we will have so many recommendations for you.

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