It sounds counter-intuitive, but some picture books achieve a whole new level of creativity as audiobooks. This selection of picture book classics as well as new picture book titles have all earned an Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine for their high-quality narration and production. Introduce these to children as stand-alone audiobooks or follow along with […]
Poured Over is a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences and ideas and stories and characters; readers who ask a lot of questions, just like Poured Over’s host, Miwa Messer, a career bookseller who’s always reading. Follow us here for surprising riffs, candid conversations, a few laughs, and lots of great book recommendations […]
I read in your bio that this book was inspired from stories you made up for your own kids at bedtime. Can you tell us more about this? It must be so cool for them that other kids get to read these stories too! There’s only so long you can survive on impressions of your […]
One thing that seems to unite all of us is an instinctual urge to protect children. Aside from our emotional reaction to the helpless, the small, and the innocent, children are also quite literally the future, so it makes sense whether or not you ascribe a moral quotient to the phenomenon. Which makes it interesting to note just […]
January is officially here and that means winter is, too. While December was cold, the next couple of weeks are when Old Man Winter really settles in, chilling our bones and sending us all running for our covers. It’s the perfect time to pick up a classic children’s book and find a cozy spot by the […]
