Host Victoria Horn is joined for a second time by special guest Katie Rider, Odell's Youth Programming Coordinator! Katie and Victoria discuss their most-anticipated 2023 book releases and play a round of "Real or Fake Book Release." On V's Verses, Victoria recommends poetry about everyday experiences and reads her original poem, "Making Library Books." As always, listen 'til the end for behind-the-scenes antics!
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Katie's Most-Anticipated
Make Way for Butterfly by Ross Burach (4/18/23)
Happy Place by Emily Henry (4/25/23)
The Celebrants by Steven Rowley (5/31/23)
Tap, Tap, Tap! Dance, Dance, Dance! by Herve Tullet (5/16/23)
Victoria's Most-Anticipated
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (2/21/23)
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (2/21/23)
One Smart Cookie by Mika Song (8/15/23)
We Don’t Lose Our Class Goldfish by Ryan T. Higgins (3/28/2023)
"Real or Fake Book Release"
Wizkit: An Adventure Overdue by Tanya J. Scott (4/4/23)
The Dogs Who Play Baseball by Thomas Louis Carroll
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins (1/3/23)
August Blue by Deborah Levy (6/6/23)
Chlorine by Jade Song (3/28/23)
Pageboy by Elliot Page (6/6/23)
Poems about Everyday Experiences
“Fund Drive” by Terri Kirby Erickson
“The Chairs That No One Sits On” and “Cheerios” by Billy Collins
“At the Student Poetry Reading” by Kim Stafford
“To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year” by Philip Appleman