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About Susan Raab
NBN Episodes hosted by Susan:
August 19, 2017
The Children's Film
Noel Brown is a film and television scholar at Liverpool Hope University. His research has focused on Hollywood and British cinema (classical and cont…
June 21, 2017
A Discussion with Australia's Children's Laureate
Though he works across a wide range of artistic mediums Leigh Hobbs is best known for the children's books he has written and illustrated featuring hi…
June 13, 2017
An Interview with Aksel Koie
Aksel Koie, CEO of Step In Books, based in Copenhagen and founded in 2014, discusses the design and technology behind his Bologna Ragazzi Digital Awar…
May 27, 2017
BabyLit
The Gibbs Smith motto is "to enrich and inspire mankind." Since 1969, the publishing house has become known for creating smart, stylish, sophisticated…
May 25, 2017
Alphabetter and the Peace Dragon Project
Author, illustrator and international speaker/teacher, Linda Ragsdale talks about her Peace Dragon Tale series of books for children and shares how th…
May 23, 2017
Discussion with George White
George White, President and COO of Up With Paper and Jumping Jack Press interviewed following the Bologna Children's Book Fair, discusses the intricac…
May 21, 2017
The Magic Inside Books
Matteo Faglia, discusses the 2017 Bologna Book Fair exhibition, "Pop-up Show: The Magic Inside Books," which traces some of the important milestones i…
April 18, 2017
The Happiness Effect
In The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost (Oxford University Press, 2017), Donna Freitas investi…
February 15, 2017
Steamboat School
In Steamboat School (Jump at the Sun, 2016), an historical picture book based on true events, author Deborah Hopkinson recounts the story of Reverend …
January 25, 2017
Growing Each Other Up
With Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers an intimately de…
January 6, 2017
Some Writer!
Readers of all ages know E. B. White's work. Charlotte's Web is the first book many children are read aloud. Elements of Style remains an essential re…
December 29, 2016
From Playgrounds to PlayStation
Carroll Pursell's From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) explores how play ref…
November 29, 2016
The Water Princess
Supermodel Georgie Badiel grew up in a small village in Burkina Faso where the closest source of water was many miles from home. After launching her s…
November 3, 2016
Some Girls are Born to Lead
Michelle Markel, an award-winning author and former journalist who has written for The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, talks about books sh…
October 28, 2016
Inside the Brain of the World's Smartest Bird
Award-winning author, Pamela S. Turner discusses two new books, Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the Worlds Smartest Bird (HMH Books for Young Readers…
October 18, 2016
Human Rights and Children's Literature
How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others? In Human Rights in Children's Literature: Imagination and the…
October 14, 2016
I Dissent
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what…
September 12, 2016
Peep and Egg
Peep cant wait for Halloween to start, but younger Egg has a long list of reasons to wish it would not. In a scene familiar to many families, the pros…
September 8, 2016
She Stood for Freedom
"Anyone can make a difference. Find a problem, get some friends together, and go fix it. Remember you don't have to change the world, just change your…
August 23, 2016
Travels with Gannon and Wyatt
Exotic, dangerous, exhilarating and extreme--the contradictions that are Hawaii are the challenges adventurer twins, Gannon and Wyatt, must face as th…
August 2, 2016
Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic: A Celine Caldwell Mystery (Paris 1865 Press, 2016) and Sons of Liberty, which will be published in Spring 2017, are the first Celine …