265. Celebrating Book Series with Dawn Smith

Brave Writer

Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley

Books, Arts, Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Education

4.8 • 904 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Is there anything better than the warm, magical feeling you get from a good book series? In today’s episode, Dawn Smith, Brave Writer’s Director of Publishing, joins us to discuss the power of children’s book series.

We talk about the unique delight of reading a book series, getting immersed in the characters and the world they live in. We also dig into how series help build kids’ confidence through repeat exposure to an author’s writing patterns.

Tune in to hear some of our favorite book series and the memories they helped us make with our kids.

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0:52.3	Welcome to the Brave Writer podcast. I am Melissa Wiley and I'm here today with the Brave Writer
1:00.2	Director of Publishing, Dawn Smith, who is one of my favorite people on the planet. One of the
1:07.6	best editors I have ever worked with. She's my editor on, oh gosh, years' worth of arrows,
1:16.3	darts and quills. And definitely, Don, you are one of my favorite, favorite people to talk about books with.
1:25.8	Aw, well, thank you, Lissa. You are one of my favorite people to talk about books and all kinds of other bookish things.
1:34.3	Yeah, John, what time do we, how long ago did we get on this call to record this episode?
1:39.8	And we're just now, like 35 minutes later hitting record.
1:43.9	Always so much to say. And today I get to
1:45.9	talk to you about like one of the best possible topics of all time, which is book series,
1:52.2	our favorite book series and like why series are so special and so great for kids.
1:59.8	Yeah, they are amazing for kids. Thank you for the brilliant
2:03.6	idea. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, all you have to do is say let's talk about books and then we can
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