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Book-centered interviews with children‘s book authors and illustrators, Maine educators, educational researchers, nonprofit leaders and more. A podcast of Island Readers & Writers (IRW), a nonprofit organization based in Southwest Harbor, Maine, that aims to inspire a love of reading and learning among Maine children living on coastal islands and in rural Washington County communities.
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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
In this special Foreword mini-episode we sit down with IRW Director of School Programs Alison Johnson and Steve Costanza, author & illustrator of The King of Ragtime, at the Henry D. Moore Library in Steuben, ME.
Steve & Alison reflect on their 5-school tour of Washington County and share with us what it's like to be back in-person at school assemblies, their most memorable moments with students, and their experience traveling hundreds of miles along the Maine coast with a piano.
SHOWNOTES:
- The podcast episode Alison quotes is the On Being podcast, "For the Eight Year Old in You," an interview with Kate DiCamillo, and a must-listen.
- You can read more about the Maple Leaf Rag and listen to it here.
- The music at the end of this episode is Steve Costanza playing Scott Joplin's Fig Leaf Rag at the Henry D. Moore Library, May 7, 2022.
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