{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Home Fires","title":"Shepherding Your Small Child with Picture Books","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4092,"description":"Shepherding Your Small Child with Picture Books\r\n \r\nIn this episode, Reading Rainbow meets Home fires as Tilly and Abigail each collect stacks of favorite picture books and talk through what they love about them. They also discuss abridgements, history reading, and the criteria they use for children's literature. Also, how Tilly accidentally took her husband's middle name, and why Abigail's grandmother was the coolest woman ever.\r\n \r\nFavorite books discussed (and not discussed):\r\n \r\nAbigail\r\nFinn MacCoul and His Fearless Wife: A Giant of a Tale from Ireland by Robert Byrd\r\nJames Herriot's Treasury for Children, Illustrations by Ruth Brown and Peter Barrett\r\nOne Dog Canoe by Mary Casanova, illustrated by Ard Hoyt\r\nThe Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese\r\nNight of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha\r\nKaty and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton\r\nMike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel by Viriginia Lee Burton\r\nAnnie and the Wild Animals by Jan Brett\r\nThe Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett\r\nGilgamesh the King, by Ludmila Zeman\r\nThe Revenge of Ishtar, by Ludmila Zeman\r\nThe Last Quest of Gilgamesh, by Ludmila Zeman\r\nThe Story of Robin Hood, illustrated by Alan Marks\r\nSeven Ways to Trick a Troll by Lise Lunge Larsen, illustrated by Kari Vick\r\nCaedmon's Song by Ruth Ashby, illustrated by Bill Slavin\r\nHow to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman\r\nThe Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto by Natalie Standiford, illustrated by Donald Cook\r\nThe Napping House by Audrey Wood, illustrated by Don Wood\r\nThe Priest with Dirty Clothes by RC Sproul, illustrated by Justin Gerard\r\nThe Barber Who Wanted to Pray by RC Sproul, illustrated by Lively Fluharty\r\nPatrick Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie dePaola\r\nRoom for a LIttle One: a Christmas Tale by Martin Waddell and Jason Cockcroft\r\nMartin Luther: A Man who Changed the World by Paul L Maier, illustrated by Greg Copeland\r\nLittle Pilgrim's Big Journey by Tyler Van Halteren\r\n \r\nTilly\r\nFables by Arnold Lobel\r\nFrog...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AMuZG4iUYUt6yypHOYyQVbAY4NM64arnbdZO0GvgzLg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZDE5/N2YwNTNmY2UwYjBm/OGUzMGI2OTkzZDNk/NTg0MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}