


Steven Malk, Mac’s literary agent with Writer’s House

Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight, Moon (hear Mac and other writers talk about Margaret Wise Brown and Goodnight Moon on this Remember Reading podcast episode)īilly Twitter and His Blue Whale Problem by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Adam Rexĭinotopia, A Land Apart From Time by James Gurneyĭave Eggers, author of The Circle, What is the What, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and founder of McSweeny’s and the 826 Literary non-profit The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka, illuistrated by Lane Smith Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:ĭavid Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again Mac joins us to talk about The Great Zapfino, his new picture book with illustrator Marla Frazee (hear her First Draft interview here). David takes to it and saurians, Karl rebels revolted, yet wins a graduation commendation by cheating.Mac Barnett, two-time Caldecott Honor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of picture books like Extra Yarn and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole with illustrator Jon Klassen, and the Jack book series with illustrator Greg Pizzoli. Told there is no way off the island, they must set out on a perilous ‘diono-bus’ journey, beleaguered by wild pterodactyls and relieved by Oonu’s squadron of tame ‘skybax’ aerial Dino’s, to the splendorous capital Waterfall City, where the ruling mayor sends them to mixed school where Marion, whom they befriended o the way, teaches with her saurian life partner, erudite Zippo. Dardevil Karl and cautious, studious David swim ashore and are astonished to be find a society where people cohabit happily with tame, even speaking dinosaurs. Story: Pilot Frank Scott takes his sons, half-brothers raised by different mothers, along on an island hopping holiday, but just after spotting an unchartered yet inhabited large isle, the plane crashes at sea and unconscious Frank presumably drowns.

Film Stars: David Thewlis, Katie Carr, Jim Carter
