Beyond the Book: Can a creator’s background boost your enjoyment?
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Today on Just One More Book!!, we break from our standard format to discuss connection with a book’s creator and how it impacts our enjoyment of a book.
Are you swayed by background of or connection with a book’s creator (geographically, culturally,..)? If so, does this in turn impact your young listeners’ enjoyment of a book?
Authors, illustrators and books mentioned
- Lee Edward Fodi
- Barry Root
- Kimberly Bulcken Root
- The Storytelling Princess
- Jeanne Birdsall
- The Penderwicks
Pictured, Love and Roast Chicken, which we enjoy with more bittersweet fondness knowing the spunky, adventurous spirit of author, Barbara Knutson, and that she passed away so young, so suddenly after this book was published.
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