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:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Snail and Worm: Three Stories about Two Friends by Tina Kügler
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Seeing, Saying, Doing, Playing by Taro Gomi
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Spinning by Tillie Walden
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Napping House by Audrey Wood & Don Wood
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
It Won’t Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshefgh
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