Just One More Book — Children’s Book Reviews (podcasts)

Just One More Book is a sizable digital collection of podcasts

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reviewing children’s books, as well as author and illustrator interviews and discussions.  Parents of two young daughters, Andrea and Mark explain the purpose of their web site: “The Just One More Book!! podcast is a thrice-weekly audio-on-demand program in which we discuss the children’s books we love and why we love them – recorded in our favourite coffee shop.” 

Podcasts are searchable by authors’ or illustrators’ names and also by “categories” which include, for example, topics, subjects, genres, illustrations (further subdivided: cute, hilarious etc) and values. Sound files are usually 5-12 minutes in length, and play from the web browser without any special plugins.

 

There are literally dozens of authors and illustrators including children’s favorite’s such as Jon Scieszka and Maurice Sendak. They are arranged alphabetically by first name.  

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Reviews include links to other relevant materials such as book reviews on similar topics or by the same author. Books are tagged according to content and the values (fairness/justice, forgiveness, generosity, etc) tags are especially useful. Clicking on a tag will bring up a listing of books with similar themes.

This is a useful resource for book talks, storytelling and authors. Kids and adults will like the easy format and fun approach; the love of books and reading (combined with technology) is apparent and engaging.