Charlesbridge Unplugged

Browse through author Rebecca Caprara's bookcase and get a behind-the-scenes look at Worst-Case Collin. Watch this episode on YouTube and check out the series!

Browse through author JaNay Brown-Wood's bookcase and get a behind-the-scenes look at Shhh! The Baby's Asleep. Watch this episode on YouTube and check out the series!

Browse through author Molly Beth Griffin's bookcase and get a behind-the-scenes look at Ten Beautiful Things. Watch this episode on YouTube and check out the series!

Browse through author Traci Sorell's bookcase and get a behind-the-scenes look at We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know. Watch this episode on YouTube and check out the series!

Browse through author Rajani LaRocca's bookcase and get a behind-the-scenes look at Bracelets for Bina's Brothers. Watch this episode on YouTube and check out the series!

Renowned poet Laura Purdie Salas talks about her debut Charlesbridge book Snowman-Cold=Puddle

Puppy Talk: Opposites author JC Coates talks puppies, photography, and more puppies!

We're kicking off 2019 with author Samantha Vamos, who is here to talk about her book The Piñata That the Farm Maiden Hung

Agus Morales talks about We Are Not Refugees

Hillary Homzie stops by to talk about her new early reader series Ellie May! Come have a listen.

Award-winning author Patricia Hruby Powell joins our conversation today to talk about her upcoming book Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Lil Hardin Armstrong Becomes the First Lady of Jazz

Today we're talking to two of our esteemed middle grade authors, as well as one of our middle grade editors! Joining us today are Ellen Wittlinger (Someone Else's Shoes) and HP Wood (Fakers: An Insider's Guide to Cons, Hoaxes, and Scams) as well as Editor Julie Bliven.

Come listen to us talk to Erin Dionne, author of the picture book Captain's Log: Snowbound.

Today we're talking to not one author but THREE about their young adult books for our teen imprint CharlesbridgeTEEN. We're excited to have Tracy Barrett (Freefall Summer), Marit Weisenberg (Select Few), and Caitlin Seal (Twice Dead) in discussion with each other and Executive Editor Monica Perez.

Today we're in conversation with author Carrie Pearson about her picture book Stretch to the Sun: From a Tiny Sprout to the Tallest Tree on Earth and how she came to write about the tallest tree in the world.

Kevin O'Malley and Patrick O'Brien stop by to talk about creating the third Captain Raptor book CAPTAIN RAPTOR AND THE PERILOUS PLANET!

Traci Sorell talks about her debut book WE ARE GRATEFUL: OTSALIHELIGA

Nancy Bo Flood and Jonathan Nelson discuss their first book together, FIRST LAUGH—WELCOME, BABY!

Christina Matula stops by to talk about her debut book The Shadow in the Moon: A Tale of the Mid-Autumn Festival

Anne Sibley O'Brien joins us to talk about her new book Someone New

Ruth Spiro talks about the two new books in her Baby Loves Science series, Baby Loves Gravity! and Baby Loves Coding!

Debut nonfiction author Michelle Cusolito talks about her research process for Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible ALVIN

Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins stops by to talk about his first-ever book with Charlesbridge, A House in the Sky, and Other Uncommon Animal Homes

Today we're talking to expert and season author David Biedrzycki about the newest book in his Breaking News Bears series, Alien Alert. 

Today we're talking to debut author Tami Charles about her semi-autobiographical book Like Vanessa and why it was so important for Tami to write a book for herself and others like her.

Mel Schuit talks to seasoned Charlesbridge author Barry Wittenstein about his new book The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story About an Accidental Invention (Really!), illustrated by Chis Hsu.

In our inaugural episode, Marketing Assistant Mel Schuit talks to nonfiction author Cynthia Grady about her newest book Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind, illustrated by Amiko Hirao.