Podcast Roundup: April Guests on the Children’s Book Podcast

May 18, 2026 | Asian American Voices, Latinx Voices, Native Creatives, Podcasts

This year, Boyds Mills is partnering with The Children’s Book Podcast. As partner, we’ll be helping to bring some of our friends, faculty, scholarship recipients, and alumni onto the show.

This roundup features Boyds Mills faculty member Ernesto Cisneros along with Matthew Cordell, Carole Lindstrom, and Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr.

Collecting Voices with Ernesto Cisneros

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Ernesto Cisneros, author of Queso, Just in Time (Quill Tree Books),  joins Matthew to talk about valuing our own stories and meeting our parents as who they were.

Proof That We Can Go On with Carole Lindstrom

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Carole Lindstrom, author of Red River Rose (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) and The Gift of the Great Buffalo (Bloomsbury Children’s Books), illustrated by Aly McKnight,  joins Matthew to talk about the truth that all things don’t end the way we wish.

Things are Not So Linear with Matthew Cordell

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Matthew Cordell, author and illustrator of 102 (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), joins Matthew to talk about the power of curiosity and always wanting to see new things.

Constantly Surprising with Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr

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Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, author and illustrator of Life on the Moon (Knopf Books for Young Readers), join Matthew to talk about things so awful they can only be encountered through humor.