Episode 27: March is Reading Month!

Read anything and everything—picture books, memoirs, poetry, novellas or dense, but fascinating history. Cheryl’s Books: Rumpelstiltskin retold by Mac Barnett and Illustrated by Carson Ellis The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King Mentioned: Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles (Jessica discussed in Episode 3 ) Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King Jessica’s Books: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire ( Wayward Children series ) Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire (Bk 11) The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature by Adam Morgan Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Eliot Stein Mentioned: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade (Cheryl discussed in Episode 25 ) Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon Mari’s Books: Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess The Dream Builder’s Blueprint: Dr. King’s Message to Young People by Alice Faye Duncan A Year Without Home by V.T. Bidania Mentioned: Shel Silverstein Poetry Doug Salati Books The Astrid and Apollo series by V.T. Bidania The Extraordinary Eliana series by V.T. Bidania He Should Have Told the Bees by Amanda Cox

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Episode 27: March is Reading Month! is an episode from CADLcast Podcast by Capital Area District Libraries .

This episode is 51:55 long.

This episode was published on Mar 6, 2026.

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