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2018 Youth Media Award Winners on The Yarn

February 23, 2018 by Travis Jonker

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 […]

A Note from The Yarn

October 30, 2017 by Travis Jonker

We’d Like to Send You a Sticker

September 21, 2017 by Travis Jonker

Travis: Thank you to everyone who has supported The Yarn for the last two years. Colby and I thought it would be fun to send The Yarn stickers to listeners who review the show. If you’d like a sticker just leave us a review on iTunes (use the link below), and we’ll contact you about where […]

Coming Soon (ish) on The Yarn

August 16, 2017 by Travis Jonker

Travis: There are a lot of great children’s book creators coming up on The Yarn. Here’s a preview: Coming soon . . . pic.twitter.com/GXo9K8o5EV — The Yarn (@theyarnpodcast) August 16, 2017

Who Will Be Our Guests for The Yarn LIVE at ALA Annual in Chicago?

June 8, 2017 by Travis Jonker

Travis: Are you attending the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago later this month? We are recording two LIVE episodes at the Chapter 1 Stage (located in the exhibits hall). And I think you’re going to like the guests. First up, on Friday, June 23 from 5:45-6:35 pm . . . And second (but […]

Listen to New Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle on The Yarn

May 16, 2017 by Travis Jonker

Travis: How’s that for timing, folks? Last week we released our episode with Margarita Engle and then the Poetry Foundation goes and names her Young People’s Poet Laureate. If you missed the episode, you can listen below. https://soundcloud.com/colby-sharp-3/45-margarita-engle-lion-island-unraveled/s-i5f4y Subscribe below to catch every episode of The Yarn. Click here to subscribe to The Yarn Newsletter

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 […]