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The Book Club for Kids podcast began in the smallest quadrant of Washington DC called Southwest. It was the waterfront for DC, the place where ships would dock bringing everything from building supplies to fresh fish to slaves. This week marks the 173rd anniversary of what Washington Post writer Colbert King calls "one of the most courageous acts in antebellum America": the attempted escape of African American slaves on a ship docked at the Southwest waterfront, a ship called the Pearl. This week, Book Club for Kids honors its roots by reprising our one episode featuring a non fiction book: Passenger on the Pearl by Winifred Conkling, taped before a live audience at Virginia's Fall for the Book Festival. Lolita Marie is our celebrity reader. www.bookclubforkids.org...moreCopy Link

Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League #AprilFools 2021 reviewed by Lani, age 12, Chaska, age 13 and Mirabel, age 8 Welcome to another April Fools episode of Book Power for Vets! Wait what? Chaska, Lani and Mirabel team up to review a classic mystery, but everything is not as it seems. Can the Power kids solve the mystery of who re-wrote the script? Mad love to our MadLibs contributors: Megan, Jay, Vance, Otis, Clyde, Becky, Chloe, Wyatt, Angela and Eleanor from St. Louis, Missouri Emerson, Griff and Jonathan from Chicago, Illinois Mike and Aaron from California Ari from Boston Ruby from Freiburg, Germany Jenn, Mike, Crystal, Lisa and Ian from Florida Alice from Oklahoma   For questions or to suggest a book for us to review email us at bookpowerforkids@gmail.com .   Our website is http://bookpowerforkids.com/, or visit us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookpowerforkids/ and Twitter @bookpower4kids   We are proud members of Kids Listen. For more quality children's podcasts visit http://www.kidslisten.org/members   All of our music was created using Music Maker Jam for non-commercial purposes, http://www.justaddmusic.net/en/ . Credit to http://www.freesfx.co.uk/ for all of the mystery sound effects.   Thanks for listening! ...moreCopy Link

Epic Encore: Once again...Nonsense appeared to be on a collision course with reason...presenting Buttons & Figs and the Oyster Actors on the Air in The War of the Fools. It was on this day, April 1st, in which weird happenings began to happen. Reporters began to report reportable events, reportable strange happenings, reportable odd sightings - a meat shower, a weird alphabet song, odd creatures sailing in a sieve making demands...what if it were all true?! Featuring voices from the pod-o-sphere, including The Past & The Curious, Composer Dad, and What If World. Tune in to Buttons & Figs to find out what the reporters are reporting this April Fool’s day. btw...does anyone have any stilton cheese?! Take care out there....moreCopy Link

On this KidLit Podcast, listen to this “how-to” joke book that not only tells you lots of very funny jokes, it shows you how to make up jokes of your own! Now you can be the life of every party! Watch Marvin’s LAUGH IT UP! ABOUT the Book Why did the farmer spray his chickens with perfume? Because he couldn’t stand the FOWL smell! What do you get if you cross a cow and two ducks? Milk and QUACKERS! Why do you wear two pairs of pants to play golf? In case you get a HOLE IN ONE! Have you ever wondered what makes jokes like these funny? It’s wordplay, of course! With this book, you’ll discover the secret to cracking jokes using homonyms, idioms, and double meanings. Before long, you’ll be able to turn everyday words into sidesplitting jokes! ABOUT Marvin Marvin Terban is a longtime teacher and best-selling children’s book author. Called a “master of children’s wordplay” by ALA Booklist and “Mr. English for Kids” by the Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club, he has written over thirty-nine books for young readers and teachers, most of them about the English language. He is Scholastic’s “Professor Grammar.” He was born in Massachusetts and got his start as an author with a book that he wrote and drew in the first grade about a fuzzy green dragon. His first writing job was a weekly column for his local newspaper when he was in high school. He was also the editor of his high school newspaper and literary magazine. He and his wife Karen live in New York City across from a park and have two children and two grandchildren. His grandchildren live in the country and have a dog named Nacho and two pet pigs in their backyard named Pickles and Eileen. Marvin loves to be a teacher and an author, read, take walks in Central Park, go to movies and shows, travel to places around the world, meet his readers at school visits, and best of all, spend time with his family and friends. Sponsored by Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest CONNECT WITH Marvin Website | FacebookCONNECT WITH KidLit TV Facebook Group | Facebook Page | Instagram | Newsletter | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube Executive Producer: Julie Gribble  The post KidLit RADIO: LAUGH IT UP! with Marvin Terban appeared first on KidLit TV....moreCopy Link