Episode Ten! Of Kitchen Tables, Stovetops, and Scales: an essay by Megan Dowd Lambert

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Welcome to episode ten of our kidlitwomen* podcast! Every week this podcast will feature an essay about an issue in the children's literature community (Monday) and a discussion about the essay (Wednesday). 

In this episode, author  reads her essay "Of Kitchen Tables, Stovetops, and Scales: The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Our Writing Lives"  You can read Megan's essay in its entirety HERE. Tune in for Wednesday’s episode with a discussion with Susan about this essay.

About Megan Dowd Lambert

Megan Dowd Lambert grew up in Vermont and earned her BA at Smith College, where she majored in African-American Studies and Government. She earned her MA in Children’s Literature at Simmons College, where she is now a Senior Lecturer in Children’s Literature. She is the author of Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See (Charlesbridge 2015), which introduces the Whole Book Approach to storytime that she developed in association with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. In 2009 she was named a Literacy Champion by Mass Literacy, and she has served on the 2009 Geisel, 2011 Caldecott, and the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Committees.

Megan won a 2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor for her first picture book, A Crow of His Own, illustrated by David Hyde Costello (Charlesbridge 2015). Her second picture book, Real Sisters Pretend, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell (Tilbury House) was published in 2016. Charlesbridge will publish A Kid of Their Own, a sequel to A Crow of His Own, in 2019. Her new beginning reader series about two girls who are best friends will debut with Charlesbridge in 2019 with the title Jane and June Are Friends.Megan reviews and writes for Kirkus Reviews and The Horn Book and is a Staff Blogger for Embrace Race: A Community about Race and Kids. She lives with her family, including seven children ages 0-21, in western Massachusetts.

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