Welcome to the bookcase. I am Kate Gibson.

And I'm Charlie Gibson. We welcome you back to the bookcase. And in this cast, we are calling all mothers and fathers, particularly of kids between the ages of I would say eight and 14 or 15. And Kate will tell you why.

We have the prolific children's author

of Stuart Gibbs on the show today. And I'm so excited to have him on the show. He's written so

many books that not even he is sure how many he has written. He believes when we come to the end of

the calendar this year, he will have released 28. I'm not going to check him on that,

but that's what he says. He has four or five different series going at the same time. There's

once upon a Tim about a young kid's quest to be a night that probably skews in the eight to 10-year-old

area. There's the Moon-based Alpha series about families who live on the moon because NASA's

testing out the viability of that.

There's spy school where the CIA recruits kids to be spies in like middle school age.

There's fun jungle where there's a kid who lives in the country's biggest zoo with his two

zoologist parents and he solves mysteries about the animals. There's Charlie Thorne, who's a female middle

schooler who travels around the world and solves mysteries. I mean, if those elevator pitches of

those series don't sound like books that your kids would want to run out and read, then they just

need a better sense of excitement. And when we said that Stuart Gibbs was coming on the podcast,

there was one response that was particularly important to me and to Kate.

My grandson Lang, is now 12, is just Stuart Gibbs' biggest fan. And whenever he sees a new Stuart Gibbs book, and there are a lot of them coming out sort of rapid fire. He gets it,

he reads it, and he loves it. So Kate and I are both in better stead with my grandson now,

in better repute than we were before, because Stuart Gibbs is with us.

I don't ski. I don't play baseball. I haven't quite fit into Lang's Wheelhouse yet. So the fact that I've gone up and as estimation by having on an author he loves for me is very exciting.

And we told Stuart Gibbs we wanted to do this podcast and air it at a time that he had a new book coming out. And he said, well, I have so many books coming out. I'm not exactly sure when I should tell you to put it on.

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