This year, the Highlights Foundation is partnering with The Children’s Book Podcast. As partner, we’ll be helping to bring some of our friends, faculty, scholarship recipients, and alumni onto the show.
In May, faculty member Rob Sanders and 2024 scholarship recipient Rebecca Lee Kunz were on the show, along with others. Here’s a quick look at the episodes:
Rob Sanders
Rob Sanders, author of Book Comes Home: A Banned Book’s Journey (Random House Books for Young Readers), illustrated by Micah Player, joins Matthew to talk about the final stage of publication: readers.
Rebecca Lee Kunz
Rebecca Lee Kunz, illustrator of Chooch Helped (Levine Querido), written by Andrea L. Rogers, joins Matthew to talk about the importance of taking time to learn, to explore, and to discover.
More About Rebecca Lee Kunz
Rebecca’s Website
‘Chooch Helped’ this author and illustrator win the 2025 Caldecott Medal
Matt de la Peña and Loren Long
Matt de la Peña and Loren Long, author and illustrator of Home (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers), join Matthew to talk about encountering diversity and exploring alongside the reader.
Kelly Leigh Miller
Kelly Leigh Miller, author illustrator of Cloud Puppy: Game On! (Atheneum Books for Young Readers), joins Matthew to talk about raising Tamagotchi, adoring Sanrio characters, and balancing the cute and the weird in her own storytelling.
