Stuart Gibbs is Back in the Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Stuart Gibbs is a man who loves his audience and his audience loves him. He has written six series of books for kids and all them offer a glimpse into the glee that Stuart Gibbs takes in the stories he tells. Whether it’s blowing up whales, going to a secretly run CIA training school for kids or a knight who never meant to become one, Stuart Gibbs takes real pleasure in entertaining his readers. One of his newest passions is turning his best selling work into graphic novels. His first series being turned into a paneled masterpiece is the Spy School series. His collaboration with illustrating Anjan Sarkar took a surprising turn. Our bookstore this week is Read Herring (soon to be New South Books) in Montgomery Alabama. Books mentioned in the podcast: Moon Base Alpha Series by Stuart Gibbs Once Upon a Tim Series by Stuart Gibbs Spy School Series by Stuart Gibbs Spy School: the Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs Spy Camp: the Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs The FunJungle Collection by Stuart Gibbs Whale Done by Stuart Gibbs The Last Musketeer by Stuart Gibbs Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers edited by Rose Brock The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton The Deep by Nick Cutter Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Latham and Charles Waters Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham Children of Dust by Marlin Barton Tell the World You're a Wildflower by Jennifer Horne Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.5	Welcome to the bookcase. I'm Charlie Gibson. And I am Kate Gibson. Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. This is a continuation of our two-generational two-gender look at books, books that we find and love. And today we're going to get into a subject that really is one of the primary reasons we started this podcast.
0:56.9	One of the things that I think is most important today is how do you get kids to read?
1:01.9	There are so many distractions that they have.
1:05.5	You look at them, they're on their phones all the time, they've got an iPad or a computer.
1:10.4	Their lives
1:10.8	revolve around their digital devices. But how do you get them to move from screens to words
1:17.4	on pages? That's really critical. And there's a new phenomenon that really is very instrumental in
1:23.9	getting kids to do that. Well, it's a new phenomenon that's been around for, you know,
1:28.3	years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years, which is we're,
1:31.4	we're finally starting to take the graphic novel seriously. And I'm really excited about what
1:36.8	Stuart Gibbs is doing, because Stuart Gibbs, as you know, is a man on a mission to get this generation
1:42.2	to read. I mean, the man has like six different series going.
1:46.9	They serve everything from swashbuckling to space exploration to zoology.
1:52.5	Like he wants to hit every kid's interest at this age.
1:57.0	And now he's turning his books into graphic novels.
2:00.8	And graphic novels has become so prolific
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