Jason Reynolds interviews Christine Platt on the Fully Booked Takeover.
On this week’s Fully Booked Takeover, sponsored by Penguin Young Readers Group, we welcome special guest host Jason Reynolds in conversation with author and advocate Christine Platt.
In this new regular feature at the podcast, a beloved bestselling author invites an author whose work they admire for an in-depth conversation—writer to writer. The questions they ask and the subjects they explore are all up to them.
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds is the creator of award-winning books for readers of all ages. His pitch-perfect middle grade novel As Brave as Youwon the 2016 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature; and Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, a collaboration with Ibram X. Kendi, was a Kirkus Prize finalist in 2020. His latest work, Stuntboy, In-Between Time—a sequel to the wildly popular adventure story Stuntboy, in the Meantime, illustrated by Raúl the Third—was published by Atheneum on August 29.
He's joined in conversation by Christine Platt, an acclaimed author and social justice advocate whose books center African diasporic experiences. Her diverse works include fiction and nonfiction for adults (The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living With Less; Rebecca, Not Becky, with Catherine Wigginton Greene), as well as young readers (The Story of Michelle Obama: A Biography Book for New Readers; Breaking News, illustrated by Alea Marley).
Then editors Mahnaz Dar, Eric Liebetrau, and Laurie Muchnick share their top picks in books for the week.
EDITORS’ PICKS:
The House of the Lost on the Cape by Sachiko Kashiwaba, illus. by Yukiko Saito, trans. by Avery Fischer Udagawa (Yonder)
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor (Biblioasis)
ALSO MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE:
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina, trans. by Lucy Rand
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Parkland by Dave Cullen
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
Terms of Service by Craig W. Stanfill
Blood of the Hunted by Marc R. Micciola
Fully Booked is produced by Cabel Adkins Audio and Megan Labrise.
