No Extra Words one person's search for story

A special episode in which I tell you the story of a guy named Dewey (or sometimes Dui,) some numbers, and the democratization of American libraries.

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Today's books are:

"B" is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood. Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1939.

Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace. HarperCollins, 1940.

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Today's books are:

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Viking, 1962.

A Poem for Peter by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Viking, 2016.

Other things discussed in this episode:

Ezra Jack Keats's former collaborato…

Today's books are:

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude by Jonah Winter. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009. (not pictured)

A River of Words: the story of William Carlos Williams by Jen B…

Today's books are:

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: a celebration of poetry with a beat, edited by Nikki Giovanni. Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008

Out of Wonder: poems celebrating poets by Kwame Alexander. Candle…

Today's books are:

Squeeze Play: a novel by Jane Leavy. Doubleday, 1990. (Not pictured. In his younger days, my little baseball fan tore the cover off my copy.)

Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Go…

Today's books are:

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005

Little Leaders: bold women in black history by Vashti Harrison. Little, Brown, and Company 2017.

Other bo…

Today we're talking about a book we once knew well.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1962.

Thank you to today's special guest who stopped by to talk Wrinkle with me.…

Today's books:

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. HarperCollins, 1932.

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. HarperCollins, 1935.

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder…

Today's books are:

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco. Doubleday, 1922.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Candlewick Press, 2006.

Today's books are:

Charles and Emma: the Darwins' leap of faith by Deborah Heiligman. Henry Holt & Company, 2008.

Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter. Scholastic, Inc., 1997.

Some th…

Today's books are:

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins, 1963.

A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2010.

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Today we're talking book pairings and why this is the new format. Today's books are:

Never in a Hurry: essays on people and places by Naomi Shihab Nye. University of South Carolina Press, 1996

When W…

"An Ode to Rejection" is by Marlene Woods, copyright 2018, used with permission. Marlene originally published this poem on her website iloveyougram.com. Read Marlene's bio.

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It was my privilege to put together this episode on an important topic and I can't begin to express my gratitude to our contributors and to my wonderful support community who made it possible.

"Famil…

There are things we say, things we don't say, and things we say no one hears.

The writer's buddy, "The Quizzical Lizard," is able to tell her what he really wants. By Anna Kander, copyright 2017, use…

Today we close out our Best of No Extra Words series with the best of 2017, which means we are once again headed out on the road for a poetry field trip and we're bringing some short fiction along fo…

The second in a three part series of reruns celebrating No Extra Words history...because if you don't know your No Extra Words history you are doomed to repeat it. Today we revisit Episode 51: Curmud…

After sharing with you my prep work for this year's madcap novel writing adventure, I had to pop back in and tell you how it went and what happened.

My goal tracker did change over the month. Here's …