{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"BBAB 246: Time to Celebrate Picture Book Month!","description":"Brain Burps About Books Podcast #246 Time to Celebrate Picture Book Month! An Interview with Dianne de Las Casas Announcements Just a quick note to let you know that I\u2019m starting a new podcast soon called Writing for Children (if I haven\u2019t already started by the time you hear this). Want to know more? It\u2019s going to be pretty awesome and very different from this show. Go to writingforchildren.com to learn more. If you liked this episode, please review it on iTunes by doing this: 1. Open the show's page in iTunes store here. 2. Click on the &quot;View in iTunes&quot; button under the logo. 3. You will see the list of episodes. Scroll past them to &quot;Customer Reviews&quot; and &quot;Write a Review&quot; is right under that. Thank you. This week my guest is Dianne de Las Casas Dianne and I talk about  How Picture Book Month got started. Our own picture book memories. How picture books promote literacy. Elizabeth O. Dulemba's Picture Book Month Calendar. Marcie Colleen's curriculum guides for Picture Book Month. How to work picture books in to school curriculum. Free downloads available for Picture Book Month. Following #PictureBookMonth on Twitter. How picture books led Christmas sales last year. This month's Picture Book Month Champions\u2022 Sudipta Bardan-Quallen \u2022 David Biedrzycki \u2022 Paulette Bogan \u2022 Mike Curato \u2022 Matthew Gollub \u2022 Julie Gribble \u2022 Julie Hedlund \u2022 Carter Higgins \u2022 Molly Idle \u2022 Joe Kulka \u2022 Jennifer Gray Olson \u2022 Kathryn Otoshi \u2022 Anne Marie Pace \u2022 Rukhsana Khan \u2022 Robin Newman \u2022 Penny Parker Klostermann \u2022 Eric Litwin \u2022 Loren Long \u2022 Deb Lund \u2022 LeUyen Pham \u2022 Matt Phelan \u2022 Stephen Shaskan \u2022 Trisha Speed Shaskan \u2022 TJ Shay \u2022 Whitney Stewart \u2022 Holly Stone-Barker \u2022 Mo Willems \u2022 Natasha Wing \u2022 Matthew Winner \u2022 Paula Yoo  ","author_name":"Brain Burps About Books","author_url":"http:\/\/katiedavis.com\/podcast\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3925046\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/10219793"}