Your Call for July 17th, 2014: We’ll open the lines to get your recommendations for reading while on vacation or enjoying a long summer evening. Have a book you’re looking forward to reading right now? Do you have an all-time favorite everyone should know about, or a new discovery you can't wait to share? If you’re a parent, how are you inspiring your child to read, and what are the books your kids can’t put down? Join the conversation on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Kevin Hunsanger, co-owner of Green Apple Books
Carla Kozak, collections developer for children’s and teen books at the San Francisco Public Library
Web Resources:
Pintrest Page of 2014 Children's Books Recommendations from the SFPL
NPR - A Diverse #SummerReading List for Kids
Recommended Books from our show:
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz
Closed for Winter by Georgia Blain
Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography
Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
Goliath by Max Blumenthal
An Act of State: Execution of Martin Luther King by William Pepper
Anything that Moves by Nick Turse
9/11 and the American Empire by David Ray Griffin
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Power of Now by Eckhart Tole
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
California by Edan Lepucki
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt – The Home Front in WWII by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Abroad by Katie Crouch
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Do Not Sell at Any Price by Amanda Petrusich
Journey by Erin Becker
One Summer by Bill Bryson
Animal Architecture by Ingo Arndt
Children’s Books:
Anything by Sandra Boynton
Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett
Locomotive by Brian Floca
The Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen
Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle
This Orc He Caveboy by David Elliot
Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner
Redwoods / Gravity / The Gallapagos by Jason Chin
Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You by Nancy Tillman
anything by Kate De Camillo