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February 23, 2018 by Travis Jonker

2018 Youth Media Award Winners on The Yarn

Travis: A bunch of the folks who recently took home awards during the 2018 Youth Media Awards have appeared on the show. If you haven’t listened to these episodes, now might be a good time to get to know these award winners. Jason Reynolds Awards: Newbery Honor, CSK Author Honor, Printz Honor, Odyssey Honor https://soundcloud.com/colby-sharp-3/35-jason-reynolds-ghost-unraveled […]

November 16, 2017 by Colby Sharp

Taking The Yarn to #NCTE17

Colby: I’m excited to head to the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference today. It is one of my favorite conferences. I’ll spend the next four days attending sessions, connecting with educators, visiting with old friends, making new friends, and interview book creators for The Yarn. Travis and I try to do all […]

October 30, 2017 by Travis Jonker

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Narrator of the Month: Tara Sands

February 14, 2017 by Colby Sharp

Colby: We are excited to feature Tara Sands in this edition of our Narrator of the Month Series. If you listened to Season 2 of The Yarn, you may remember hearing a clip of Tara reading the first chapter of Gertie’s Leap To Greatness at the end of Episode Four. You’ll find an interview I did […]

If You Like The Yarn, You Might Also Like “Books Between”

October 26, 2016 by Colby Sharp

Colby:  Travis and I are always looking for great books to hand the readers in our lives. We know that if a kid likes Kate DiCamillo’s Because of Winn-Dixie they might also like Barbara O’Connor’s How to Steal a Dog. We were thinking that it might be fun to do the same with podcasts. In […]

#31 Grace Kendall (S2 E2)

October 15, 2016 by Colby Sharp

Colby: We’re excited to bring you Episode 2 of Season 2. In today’s episode we tell the story of Gertie’s Leap to Greatness editor Grace Kendall. https://soundcloud.com/colby-sharp-3/31-grace-kendall-s2-e2   If you missed Episode 1, subscribe below and you can catch up on all of our episodes. Click here to subscribe to The Yarn Newsletter

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#4 Phil Falco (S1 E4)

October 15, 2016 by Colby Sharp

Colby: Back in Season 1 of The Yarn we had an opportunity to art director Phil Falco. We learned a lot from Phil. If you didn’t get a chance to listen last year when we released our episode with Phil, we hope you’ll give it a listen today. https://soundcloud.com/colby-sharp-3/episode-4-phil-falco-81215-247-pm-copy Click here to subscribe to The Yarn […]

(Audio) Book Trailer Premiere: Finding Perfect

August 8, 2016 by Colby Sharp

Colby: You’ve seen book trailers. You know that kids love them. My students often beg me to show their favorite trailers over and over again. Debut author Elly Swartz is trying something new: an audio book trailer. Here at The Yarn we are big fans of audio. I think Elly’s audio trailer is magnificent. Hopefully, […]

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