Episode 14: A Commitment to Representation

The Watchung Booksellers Podcast

In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers podcast, Margot Sage-EL interviews Arthur Levine about his prolific career in children’s publishing.
Arthur A. Levine is the founder of the independent publisher Levine Querido. His determination to bring a diverse selection of "The Best of the World's Literature for Young People" to American readers introduced great writers such as J. K. Rowling, Markus Zusak, Luis Sepúlveda, and Jaclyn Moriarty. LQ’s publication of Newbery honorees Daniel Nayeri, Darcie Little Badger, and Donna Barba Higuera, author Cat Min, and Printz, Stonewall and Sydney Taylor award winner Sacha Lamb continues the tradition.

Margot Sage-EL, owner emeritus of Watchung Booksellers, has decades of bookselling and publishing experience and works to cultivate the bookstore as a welcoming home to everyone.
Resources:
Bluestone
Ursula Nordstorm
Editor George Nicholson
Patty Gauch
Suzanne Murphy
Phyllis Fogelman
Atha Tehon
Leo and Diane Dillion
Verna Aardema

Books:
A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here.

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The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Silver Stream Studio in Montclair, NJ.

The show is edited by Kathryn Counsell and Bree Testa. Special thanks to Timmy Kellenyi and Derek Mattheiss.

Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica.

Art & design and social media by Evelyn Moulton. Research and show notes by Caroline Shurtleff.

Thanks to all the staff at Watchung Booksellers and The Kids’ Room!

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