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Hey pals! Today, we're starting THE SELECTION series by Kiera Cass. This surprisingly Marxist, Bachelor-inspired, dystopian YA love triangle sucked us in and kept our attention. Join us as we follow kinda-like-other-girls America Singer as she struggles to choose between golden retriever Prince Maxon and dark-haired boy Aspen while living in a fancy palace with the world's worst security system. Enjoy the show! Brazen banter: Athletic scandals! Olympic gymnastics! The strange connection between The Selection series, Fifty Shades of Grey, and Lord of the Rings! Cat Scale: 6 Revolutionary Resources Highest paid athletes Stick It (2006) Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 'Your Boyfriend's a Bitch' Hitman Turkish Olympian   Subscribe! Follow! Rate! Review! Tell your friends and family all about us! Support the podcast and buy us coffee WRION merch! Our feminist, sapphic, bookish Etsy shop! Instagram: @wereaditonenight Twitter: @wereaditpodcast Facebook: We Read It One Night TikTok: @wereaditonenight Email: wereaditonenight [at] gmail.com

"I feel like it was this little miracle that in some areas of my life, I'm shutting myself up and shutting myself down. But with my writing, I was always really connecting with that inner voice.” - Shannon HaleFlaws. We do everything to hide them away and pretend they don't exist. But what if these flaws  that we try so desperately to mask are exactly what we need to access our power, our story? How does one tap into it? How does  one express the very things they have tried so hard to hide? For Shannon Hale, it was writing. By picking up the pen, she found her voice, purpose, and true, messy, loveable self. As Shannon puts it, “If my gravestone simply said ‘Author of The Princess in Black,' I would be happy.” Caregivers for young kids likely know Shannon and her husband Dean Hale as the authors of the beloved, bestselling “Princess in Black” series featuring a princess with a secret superhero identity. The books have turned countless kids into avid readers, and Shannon has an endless list of anecdotes to show it. But her career spans far beyond the series. Shannon is an acclaimed author celebrated for her children's and young adult novels, such as the Newbery Honor-winning "Princess Academy" and her memoir graphic novel “Real Friends” series. In this episode, Shannon will tell us about growing up in a deeply conservative culture, and how writing unearthed her true voice from where it had been simmering beneath the surface. We discuss everything from anxiety to the family cat to boys' relationship with the color pink. Oh, and we have a special visitor, Shannon's husband and co-creator, Dean Hale, to discuss their combined writing journeys!***Connect with Jordan and The Reading Culture @thereadingculturepod and subscribe to our newsletter at thereadingculturepod.com/newsletter. ***Taking inspiration from her beloved series “The Princess in Black,” Shannon's reading challenge is Favorite Early Chapter Books. For this, she has created a list of thoughtful and engaging early chapter books for new and emerging readers. Download the list at thereadingculturepod.com/shannon-hale***This episode's Beanstack Featured Librarian is Ady Huerta, the Program Manager of Youth, Family, & Equity Services at San Diego Public Library who serves on the presidential advisory committee for incoming president Cindy Holt. She tells us what to expect for the upcoming ALA Conference.ContentsChapter 1 - ‘Squeetus' the Highly SensitiveChapter 2 - A Loophole to the Inner VoiceChapter 3 - Anne of Green GablesChapter 4 - The Family in BlackChapter 5 - Boys Like Pink TooChapter 6 - The Key to FriendshipChapter 7 - Reading ChallengeChapter 8 - Beanstack Featured Librarian LinksThe Reading CultureThe Reading Culture Newsletter SignupShannon Hale WebsiteFollow Shannon on Instagram Anne of Green GablesFollow The Reading Culture on Instagram (for giveaways and bonus content)Beanstack resources to build your community's reading cultureJordan Lloyd BookeyHost: Jordan Lloyd BookeyProducers: Jackie Lamport  and Lower Street MediaScript Editors: Josia Lamberto-Egan, Jackie Lamport, Jordan Lloyd Bookey

It's been 245 years since George Rogers Clark and his troops claimed victory over the British, capturing Fort Sackville. We'll talk with Acting Superintendent of the National Park Vance Noles on this special commemoration, as well as several other exciting opportunities being held at the park this spring.A project that started barely a year ago by the Hoosier Enduring Legacy Program (HELP) is now up and running. We'll take a look inside the new Vincennes Teen Center.Area girls were invited to become a princess for a day while learning some of the history of such a title at the Vincennes State Historic Sites' Princess Academy.And the Vincennes University Women's Basketball Team recently celebrated their Play4Kay night to help fund cancer research.Join us for the next First City Focus — Saturday nights at 7:30pm on Vincennes PBS!You can also watch episodes of First City Focus on demand HERE.First City Focus is supported by: First Vincennes Savings Bank, Good Samaritan Hospital and Duke Energy.

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Welcome back for Episode 4 of The Honeybee Princess Academy!! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

Episode 4 of The Honeybee Princess Academy!! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

Episode 4 of The Honeybee Princess Academy! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

Episode 4 of The Honeybee Princess Academy! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

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Episode 3 of The Honeybee Princess Academy! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

Episode 3 of The Honeybee Princess Academy! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

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Episode 2 of The Honeybee Princess Academy! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

Episode 2 of The Honeybee Princess Academy! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

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Welcome to The Honeybee Princess Academy!! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

Welcome to The Honeybee Princess Academy!! - Love, Mrs. Honeybee

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This week we are joined by the man who came up with our myth section pun name, Andrew! We chat about sexy snake ladies and unsexy giants in loincloths. Send us an Iris message at oftheeldestgodspod@gmail.com with your thoughts and theories going forward! We would love to hear from you. Make sure to subscribe so you know when our next episode drops and rate and review if you like what we are doing. IG: ⁠www.instagram.com/oftheeldestgodspod/⁠ Tumblr: ⁠https://www.tumblr.com/oftheeldestgodspod⁠ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: ⁠www.patreon.com/oftheeldestgods⁠ BUY OUR MERCH, PLZ: ⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/OfTheEldestGods/shop⁠ Andrew's plug: OSSC on YouTube Follow Charlie: IG: ⁠www.instagram.com/greenpixie12/⁠ and ⁠www.instagram.com/greenpixiedraws/⁠ Charlie's plug: Harley Quinn (TV series) Raye's plug: The Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale is the Utah-based New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Academy series, Rapunzel's Revenge and Austenland, which was made into a movie. Her latest, Amethyst, is on our latest UPR Booklist. We revisit our conversation.

First Draft Episode #355: Shannon Hale Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of over thirty children's and young adult books, including graphic novel memoirs Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever, and multiple award winners The Goose Girl, Book of a Thousand Days, and Newbery Honor recipient Princess Academy. THIS EPISODE BROUGHT TO YOU BY… Fundamentals of Design, a crash course in design tailored specifically for authors. Head to embowman.com/workshops to enroll, and use promo code FIRSTDRAFT20 to save $20 off the $79 price through the end of May 2022.   Thanks for Listening!

In this episode, Bianca talks with New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale about her new picture book, This Is Not For You, and the implications of applying genders to book—that's a girl book or that's a boy book. Shannon Hale is the author of over thirty children's and young adult novels, including graphic novel memoirs Real Friends and Best Friends, and multiple award winners The Goose Girl, Book of a Thousand Days, and Newbery Honor recipient Princess Academy. She also penned three books for adults, beginning with Austenland, which is now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell. With her husband, Dean Hale, she co-wrote over a dozen books, such as the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Rapunzel's Revenge and illustrated chapter book series The Princess in Black. They live with their four children near Salt Lake City, Utah. Order a copy of This Book Is Not For You on Bookshop.org, Amazon, or Audible. Transcription: You can read the transcription on The Children's Book Review. Resources: https://shannonhale.com/ Real Friends Best Friends The Goose Girl Book of a Thousand Days Austenland Rapunzel's Revenge Marvel Unlimited Discussion Topics: About Shannon Hale About This Book Is Not For You The implications of applying genders to books How Shannon and Dean Hale foster a love of reading with their kids Writing the picture book This Book Is Not For You --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechildrensbookreview/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thechildrensbookreview/support

Shannon Hale is the Utah-based New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Academy series, Rapunzel's Revenge and Austenland, which was made into a movie. Her latest, Amethyst, is on our latest UPR Booklist.

First Draft Episode #341: Jon Scieszka Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children's Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly. Hear her First Draft interview here. Dr Seuss, author of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Green Eggs and Ham and more Go, Dog, Go by P.J. Eastman Franz Kafka, author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, and more Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and more Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and more Jon's Science Verse The Astronuts, Jon's series with Steven Weinberg Jonathan Baumbach, author of The Pavilion of Former Wives, Dreams of Molly and many more Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity's Rainbow, Inherent Vice, and The Crying of Lot 49 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and more Carlos Fuentes, author of Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, and more Charles McGrath, former editor of The New York Times Book Review and former deputy editor of The New Yorker. He is currently a writer at large for The New York Times Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel Boy: Tales From Childhood and Going Solo are autobiographical books written by Roald Dahl Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There's a Ghost In This House. Listen to his First Draft interviews here and here. Battle Bunny by Mac Barnett and Jon Scieszka Matt de la Peña, author of seven critically acclaimed young adult novels including Mexican Whiteboy and Newbery Medal–winning author of Last Stop on Market Street talks about his newest collaboration with illustrator Christian Robinson, Milo Imagines the World. Listen to his First Draft interview here. 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The Far Side cartoon by Gary Paulsen Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson Guys Read Kate DiCamillo, is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, for her novels The Tale of Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses, and author of Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, National Book Award finalist The Tiger Rising, as well as New York Times bestselling novels The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Magician's Elephant, the Mercy Watson series, and more. DiCamillo was the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2014 and 2015. Her most recent novel, Beverly, Right Here completes the trilogy of Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana's Way Home. Dog Man by Dave Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants Shannon Hale, author of Princess Academy, The Goose Girl, Austenland and more Adele Griffin, two-time National Book Award honoree and author of almost thirty books for Young Adult and middle grade readers, including The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, The Becket List, and Sons of Liberty and Where I want to Be. Hear her First Draft interview here. Lisa Brown, illustrator of The Phantom Twin, The Airport Book and more Katherine Paterson, author of The Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, and more Dave Shannon, author and illustrator of No, David! 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Description Returning guest Rachel Armstrong joins Joe to discuss Shannon Hale’s 2005 novel The Princess Academy. The novel tells the story of a group of girls from a small mountain town who are all recruited to attend a royal academy with … Continue reading →

In the final episode of Anybody Listening, the guys discuss Princess Academy, how Dustin got asked to leave a Sonic and their future project. Follow Dustin on Twitter @justabigfoot, Instagram @Plasticboy310  Follow Tommy on Twitter and Instagram @tommy_servo ______________________________________________________________ Farting Around by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5152-farting-around License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license ________________________________________________________________

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Westmoreland Podcast!Well friends, it was only a matter of time before two sisters creating a podcast managed to talk about cycles...and Shakespeare? Yes. Per our usual, we cover a lot of bookish ground in one episode! But don't worry, the cycle talk is under 2 minutes and includes an awesome resource for teens. Otherwise, in this episode we discuss whether or not we collect books intentionally or just accumulate as many books as possible. It's maybe a little of both. Also, the outtakes are a whole conversation with strong opinions about chocolate, so don't miss that...and let us know your chocolate preferences! Thanks for listening!Stuff We MentionEaston Press BooksBooks We MentionA Fatal Grace, by Louise PennyTaking Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni WeschlerCycle Savvy, by Toni WeschlerUsborne Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare, illustrated by Christa UnznerHow to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, by Ken LudwigLisse's recommendation: Princess Academy, by Shannon HaleHeidi's recommendation: The Three Pines Series, Books 1-3, by Louise PennyNext up for Lisse: Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman...The Casual Vacancy, by JK RowlingNext up for Heidi: How Long Til Black Future Month? by NK JemisinOur next episode is scheduled to release March 5th, 2021 and we're talking about movie adaptations of books and our opinions of them. Happy reading!Affiliate disclaimer: all our links are Amazon affiliate links...your cost stays the same, but the little kickback from your clicks and purchases through our links helps us keep recording and provide fun things (in the future!) for our listeners too!

Brittney Bartholomew, visionary of the Princess Academy speaks about being God- led in starting a mentorship program and staying focused on Gods vision for your life. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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I thought a summer job at the Princess Academy would be a carefree escape. But I learned some hard lessons about real life while playing make-believe.

First Draft Episode #188: Ally Condie Ally Condie, New York Times bestselling author of the Matched series, as well as Summerlost and The Darkdeep, co-written with Brendan Reichs. In this conversation, Ally talks about what inspired her to get an MFA after establishing herself as a bestselling author, always working on two things at once, and how the 2016 election gave Ally enough rage to write her newest young adult novel, murderous revenge story The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode The Planet of the Apes movies, which were filmed near where Ally grew up in rural Utah Ally was inspired by a blog post by Shannon Hale, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Academy and Austenland, where she wrote about writing 1,000 words a day. Ally was inspired by Shannon to commit to daily word goals. She started with 500. Lisa Mangum, editor at Shadow Mountain press, which released Ally’s first few books Brandon Mull, New York TImes bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series, who got his start at Shadow Mountain PressChris Shoebinger, publishing director at Shadow Mountain Press, who released Ally from her publishing contract so she could pursue a bigger contract for Matched Jodi Reamer, literary agent at Writer’s House, who also represents Tahereh Mafi, New York TImes bestselling author of the Shatter Me series (listen to her First Draft episode here), Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series (listen to his First Draft episode here), John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, and Stephenie Meyer, author of the global phenomenon Twilight series Julie Strauss-Gabel, publisher at Dutton Books, who has edited John Green, Adam Gidwitz, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale Dark & Grimm and The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, and Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and I Have Lost My Way The Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in writing for children, the program Ally attended Emily Wing Smith, author of The Way He Lived and All Better Now, and Carol Lynch Williams, author of The Chosen One and Glimpse, two Utah authors Ally was friends with who also attended the Vermont College of Fine Arts for the MFA program Kekla Magoon, author of National Book Award Longlisted X: A Novel (written with Ilyasah Shabazz), Coretta Scott King-honored The Season of Styx Malone and How it Went Down, and was Ally’s mentor at the Vermont program and helped her with an early draft of Poe Blythe An Na, author of Printz winner and National Book Award long-listed A Step From Heaven, as well as Wait For Me and The Place Between Breaths, was also an advisor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts Martine Leavitt, author of Keturah and Lord Death, and Calvin,  who Ally calls “a stone cold genius.” Martine helped Ally work on a project during her Vermont residency. Quentin Tarantino’s advice to screenwriters was to delete the last two lines of dialogue from every scene, which Alfred Gough and Miles Millar--creators of Smallville and Into the Badlands shared with me on their recent First Draft episode. That’s similar to Ally’s feeling that sometimes she writes past the natural ending of a chapter. Brendan Reichs, New York Times bestselling author of Genesis, and co-writer of Virals with his mother, New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, and The Darkdeep with Ally. Brendan and Ally fortuitously decided to pursue an MFA at Vermont at the same time. YALLWEST and YALLFest, two national young adult and middle grade book festivals held in Charleston, S.C. and Los Angeles. Ally is on the board of the festivals, alongside Brendan Reichs and Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling author of the Beautiful Creatures series, Red Widow and Royce Rolls (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Stranger Things meets The Goonies, the pitch for Ally and Brendan’s co-written middle grade series, The Darkdeep   Ally’s pitch for Poe Blythe is: “Mad Max: Fury Road meets Firefly meets something really lovey.” I got a distinctly Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad) vibe from Poe when I read it!   Write Out, the non-profit organization Ally founded as a way to bring authors to kids in rural Utah Brendan Reichs, Shannon Hale, Soman Chainani (author of The School for Good and Evil series--listen to his First Draft interview here), and Yamile Saied Mendez (author of Blizzard Besties: A Wish Novel, and the forthcoming On These Magic Shores) are among the authors who volunteer at Write Out Ally and I urge listeners to Marie Kondo your fear -- go write that angry revenge novel!!!! 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Miri has successfully completed the princess academy, but with two boys vying for her attention, and unrest on the rise in the capital, Miri’s troubles are just beginning!   Princess Academy: Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale reviewed by Leilani Power (age 10).   For questions or to suggest a book for us to review email us at bookpowerforkids@gmail.com .   Our website is https://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/ .   Thanks for listening!

Small things we say to kids can have very large impacts on their life. This is the case with both the words we speak in kindness as well as those throwaway lines about “what a boy does” or “what a girl does.” In this episode I talk with Shannon Hale, author of books like Princess Academy, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and The Princess in Black about the differences she sees in how her stories are received by boys and girls and how the gendered treatment of stories (and so much of the way we treat kids) is problematic. We also talk about representation in stories and in authors and the importance for parents to seek out diverse stories to share with their kids and to focus on conversations and questions afterwards. A very useful shift you can make today is how you positions and talk about stories. Talk about genres of stories, and as she mentions, talk about a book as being “about” a boy or a girl versus being “for” a boy or a girl. We even get in to the completely ridiculous treatment of women superheroes on clothes for boys. Things like the absence of raven and Starfire in Teen Titans Go! merchandise and the oft-discussed swapping out of Captain America for Black Widow in Avengers merchandise. ADDITIONAL NOTES On gender and reading: www.squeetus.com/genderread.html Books by Shannon Hale: www.shannonhale.com/books.html Shannon Hale on Twitter: twitter.com/haleshannon New Study Shows Us That Female Superheroes Give Girls Confidence and Inspiration themarysue.com/female-superhero-study

As a child, Shannon Hale began writing books, mostly fantasy stories where she was the heroine. As an adult, her re-tellings and riffs on fairy tales, reach a new generation of kids less familiar with these classic stories. AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. For more interviews with young adult authors, visit us at www.AdLit.org, a national education service of public television station WETA. Funding is provided by grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.