On this episode, Susanna Chapman, an illustrator who loves picture books, discusses her career in books, her love for an audiobook mausoleum, and why she loves the beginning of a book. We also destigmatize her concern around her main reading format and she tricks me into answering one of my own questions.
The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith
Pre-Order Dragonflies of Glass: the True Story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Books Highlighted by Susanna:
Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang
Twenty Questions by Mac Barnett & Christian Robinson
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst & Ray Cruz
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Bear & The Moon by Matthew Burgess & Catia Chien
I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott & Sydney Smith
Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
Daughters & Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home by Zahra Marwan
It Came From the Trees by Ally Russel
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewel & Aurelia Durand
Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious by David Dark
Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That’s Fighting Back by Blake Chastain
How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The People’s Plaza: Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance by Justin Jones
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams & William Nicholson
After the Fall by Dan Santat
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
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