BookSmitten

By Kelly J. Baptist, Heather Shumaker, Patrick Flores-Scott, Jack Cheng

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Episodes: 66

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Seeing a hopeful, human world through children's literature. Hosted by authors Kelly J. Baptist, Jack Cheng, Patrick Flores-Scott, and Heather Shumaker – your book smitten crew. We cover the whole range of kidlit, from picture books to middle grade and young adult fiction, as well as writing, reading, and publishing.

Episode Date
Kate DiCamillo on BookSmitten
Oct 21, 2025
Summer Breaks: The Girls of Skylark Lane w/ Robin Benway
Nov 06, 2024
Summer Breaks: Gracie Under the Waves w/ Linda Sue Park
Oct 23, 2024
Summer Breaks: No Going Back w/ Patrick Flores-Scott
Aug 14, 2024
Summer Breaks: Ready, Set, Dough! w/ Kelly J. Baptist
Jul 17, 2024
Season 2 Finale with Ann Whitford Paul
May 29, 2024
Conference Takeaways from SCBWI Marvelous Midwest
May 15, 2024
Titles and Critiques
Mar 13, 2024
Dummies
Feb 14, 2024
Page Turns and Word Count
Jan 31, 2024
Year-end Reflections
Dec 27, 2023
Outside Inspirations
Dec 13, 2023
Making Music with Your Prose
Nov 29, 2023
Scene and Show (Don’t Tell)
Nov 15, 2023
When Life Gets in the Way
Oct 25, 2023
Interview with Jon Agee
Oct 11, 2023
Ending Well
Sep 20, 2023
Hot Plots
Sep 06, 2023
Special: Celebrating The Many Masks of Andy Zhou
Aug 16, 2023
Live from Nerd Camp PA: Keeping Kids at the Heart of Stories
Aug 02, 2023
Feedback Sessions: Heather and Kelly
Jul 19, 2023
Feedback Sessions: Patrick and Shutta
Jun 21, 2023
First Lines and Strong Openings
May 25, 2023
Barb Rosenstock on Non-fiction Picture Books
May 11, 2023
Feedback on Feedback
Apr 20, 2023
Special: Celebrating Eb & Flow
Mar 22, 2023
Mid-Season Recap
Mar 08, 2023
Character!
Dec 14, 2022
Interview with Joanna Parzakonis
Nov 30, 2022
More Story Experiments
Nov 09, 2022
Interview with Shutta Crum
Oct 19, 2022
Points of View
Sep 28, 2022
Interview with Darnell Johnson
Sep 14, 2022
Story Questions and Answers
Aug 31, 2022
Interview with Yuyi Morales
Aug 18, 2022
Writing Rough Drafts
Aug 03, 2022
Interview with Ann Whitford Paul
Jul 20, 2022
Building Frames for Story Houses
Jul 07, 2022
Lessons From Typing Mentor Texts
Jun 22, 2022
To Rhyme or Not To Rhyme: Lisa Wheeler
Jun 08, 2022
Mentor Texts Show and Tell
May 11, 2022
Interview with a True Picture Book Scholar: Betsy Bird
Apr 27, 2022
Becoming Picture Book Scholars
Apr 14, 2022
Introducing the Picture Book Challenge
Mar 30, 2022
Season 2 Teaser
Mar 04, 2022
Young Voices
Dec 01, 2021
Banned Books
Oct 27, 2021
Grandparents
Oct 14, 2021
Angeline Boulley
Sep 29, 2021
Middle School
Sep 15, 2021
Lesser-known Books
Sep 01, 2021
Boy/Girl Books
Aug 18, 2021
Works in Progress
Aug 04, 2021
The Arts in Kid Lit
Jul 21, 2021
Summer Books
Jul 07, 2021
Good books, Questionable Authors
Jun 23, 2021
Heather and the Griffins of Castle Cary
Jun 09, 2021
Sports Books
May 26, 2021
Difficult Subjects
May 13, 2021
Interview with Author Paula Yoo
Apr 28, 2021
Road Trips
Apr 14, 2021
Diversity in Books - #OwnVoices
Mar 31, 2021
Author Spotlight - Kelly J. Baptist
Mar 17, 2021
The Electric Slide and Kai
Mar 03, 2021
Books We Would Have Loved as Kids
Feb 17, 2021
Introducing BookSmitten
Feb 03, 2021