Friday, August 3, 2018

Episode 28 - Henry Lien - PCS Reads





Author Henry Lien visits PCS Reads and shares about his novel Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword.


Episode 28:
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Featured in this episode: 

Author Henry Lien










Mentioned & Recommended in this episode:


Jet Set Radio Video Game


Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Video Game















Additional Audio Used in this episode:


Heartland Flyer by Blue Dot Sessions - used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Pearlian New Year Song © Henry Lien used with permission 

Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword by Henry Lien, audiobook excerpt read by Nancy Wu © Macmillan Audio used with permission


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Friday, July 20, 2018

Episode 27 - Alexis Fajardo - PCS Reads



Cartoonist Alexis Fajardo visits PCS Reads and shares about making the Kid Beowulf series.


Episode 27:
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Featured in this episode: 

Cartoonist Alexis Fajardo













Mentioned & Recommended in this episode:






by Scott Chantler


by Art Roach


by Tony Cliff


by Scott Mccormick and R.H. Lazzell


by Joan Bauer



Music used in this episode:
Heartland Flyer & Noe Noe by Blue Dot Sessions
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Friday, July 6, 2018

Episode 26 - Caren Stelson - PCS Reads




Author Caren Stelson visits PCS Reads and shares about writing Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story.
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Featured in this episode: 

Author Caren Stelson




Recommended and Mentioned in this episode:












2018 Jane Addams Award Winner:
written by Malala Yousafzai, illustrated by Kerascoët

2018 Jane Addams Award Winner
written by Sara Holbrook



Music used in this episode:
Heartland Flyer and So Go We by Blue Dot Sessions
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Friday, June 22, 2018

Episode 25 - Heather Bouwman - PCS Reads


Author Heather Bouwman visits PCS Reads and shares about writing Crack in the Sea.


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Featured in this episode: 

Author Heather Bouwman
(A.K.A. H.M. Bouwman)



Crack in the Sea




illustration from Crack in the Sea by artist Yuko Shimizu

Also Mentioned:
The Tale of Desperaux
by Kate DiCamillo




Recommended in this episode:




Music used in this episode:
Heartland Flyer and Lakeside Path by Blue Dot Sessions
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Friday, June 8, 2018

Episode 24 Melanie Heuiser Hill - PCS Reads


Author Melanie Heuiser Hill visits PCS Reads and shares about writing her novel Giant Pumpkin Suite.


Episode 24:
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Featured in this episode: 

Author Melanie Heuiser Hill






Also mentioned:
written by E.B. White





Recommended in this episode:
by E.L. Konigsburg



The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
by Karina Yan Glaser


Holly Goldberg Sloan


Gary Paulsen



Music used in this episode:

Heartland Flyer and Town Market by Blue Dot Sessions

Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007  (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
Performed by Pierre Fournier
Published by Deutsch Grammophon, 1961.
Copyright: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Friday, May 18, 2018

Season 3 Teaser - PCS Reads



It's almost time for Season 3 of PCS Reads.
Join us for another summer filled with great books!

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Monday, February 26, 2018

Season 3: New Episodes Coming This Summer!




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