Join the Children Chatting with Authors Podcast as they interview Newbery Medal winning author Erin Entrada Kelly about her newest book, We Dream of Space, and about being an author. "Hi teachers and caregivers continue the conversation with a downloadable discussion guide."
Join the Children Chatting with Authors Podcast as they interview author Brianna DuMont about her nonfiction series The Changed History, and about being an author and historian. The Changed History series consists of the books: Famous Phonies: Legends Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed History, Fantastic…
Join the Children Chatting with Authors Podcast as they interview 2020 Newbery winning author Jerry Craft about his award-winning and best-selling book, New Kid and about being an author and illustrator. "Hi teachers and caregivers continue the conversation with a downloadable discussion guide."
Join the Studio City Podcast People as they interview Emma Steinkellner about her book, The Okay Witch, and about being an author and cartoonist. "Hi teachers and caregivers continue the conversation with a downloadable discussion guide."
When New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof returned to his hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, the portrait of life in rural America was grim. In a new book, written alongside Sheryl WuDunn, the team of the bestselling Half the Sky tells a story of how a once prospering blue-collar town was…
"I think this book could really save the world," said Ann Patchett of Gish Jen’s new dystopian novel The Resisters. This extraordinary story imagines a not-so-distant future of America—which she calls "AutoAmerica" and is half underwater and populated by two groups of people: the "Netted" of the…
2019 National Book Award Finalist Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Sabrina & Corina: Stories) will discuss her work and why the preservation, perpetuation, and presentation of the experience of Mexican-American women in literature matters. Moderated by Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book…
Education is an issue that hits home to every American. One of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, Diane Ravitch offers an impassioned defense of public education. In her new book, Slaying Goliath…
Quantum mechanics is the most important idea in physics, and physicists themselves readily admit that they don’t understand it. Genetics is another commonly misconceived area of science with the rise of new biomedical technologies and the popularity of at-home DNA testing kits. Fortunately for ALOUD…
Andrea Bernstein, the award-winning journalist, and host of the WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc., offers a sweeping new exposé into the multigenerational saga of two emblematic American families. American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power follows how these…
If you love music, what would it be like to work at the Los Angeles Philharmonic? Guest speakers from the learning, marketing, and development departments of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl will share about their careers. Interviewer: Llyr Heller: Librarian II, Teen'Scape Speakers…
Join the Children Chatting with Authors Podcast as they interview Nicki Thornton about her book, The Last Chance Hotel and about being an author. "Hi teachers and caregivers continue the conversation with a downloadable discussion guide."
What if search-and-rescue robots could sense survivors through dense smoke? What if surgical robots could perform impossible surgeries by seeing details invisible to a human doctor? At Dr. Achuta Kadambi’s UCLA lab, his team works to make these possibilities a reality. By symbiotically blending…
What is it like to work at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which conducts missions to Mars, Jupiter and beyond? Join us for a conversation with a systems engineer, scientists, artists and education and outreach staff from JPL. Interviewer: Llyr Heller: Librarian II, Teen'Scape Speakers: Tracy Drain…
