Kid Lit with Jon Klassen & Mac Barnett

Author

Mac Barnett

and author and illustrator

Jon Klassen

join Sarah and Miranda to explain what makes a great picture book and why kids might be better readers than adults. Plus, preschoolers with hammers, Where the Wild Things Are is a true story, the sad blunting our “keenness” as we age, and why we still love our bullies.

LINKS:

• Looking at Picture Books

• The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell (Miranda’s Bake Off mystery)

• Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

• Shape Island on Apple TV

• “How Does Santa Go Down The Chimney” by Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen

• Reagan Iran Contra SNL Sketch

• Jon & Mac on Margaret Wise Brown over on their substack, Looking at Picture Book

• The Elephant and The Bad Baby

• Eloise Rickman on Children’s Rights

• The Marginalian

• “I’ll Fix Anthony” by Judith Viorst

• Mac and Jon on Wild Things

• Children’s book author Remy Charlip

• Children’s book author David Crews

  

  mac and sarah in 2002