Happy Holidays from KidLit TV

Happy Holidays to you and yours from KidLit TV! 2015 was a wonderful year for KidLit TV and our community. We launched KidLit RADIO, won a Gold Parents Choice Award, celebrated our first birthday, and brought you great children’s literature programming. Thank you for supporting us through this journey.

Please enjoy our 2015 and 2014 kid lit holiday specials with your family and friends during the break.

Watch the 2015 Holiday Special

Former librarian and StoryMakers host Rocco Staino called on several children’s literature experts to share their top holiday and winter picks. Maria Russo (New York Times Book Review), John Schumacher AKA Mr. Schu (Scholastic), and John A. Sellers (Publishers Weekly) read hundreds of picture books every year, speak with thousands of authors and illustrators, teachers, librarians.

If you’ve ever wanted to know what Santa was like as a baby, how a young refugee spends his first holiday in New York City, or if it’s possible to spread the holiday spirit through the scent of a meal, then you should tune in to this very special episode. Trust us, it’s marvelous.

Click here to learn more about the books chosen by the 2015 panel of experts.

You can listen to the 2015 Holiday Special on KidLit RADIO too!

Christmas Eve Throwback Thursday: Watch the 2014 Holiday Special

Join Rocco Staino and guests Jennifer Brown (Former Children’s Editor for Shelf Awareness, director of the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College + founder of Twenty by Jenny), Susannah Richards (Associate Professor of Education at Eastern Connecticut State University), and Luann Toth (Managing Editor, School Library Journal Reviews), for a delightful review of new and classic holiday themed children’s books!

Click here to learn more about the books chosen by the 2014 panel of experts.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, a Happy New Year, and everything in between! Cheers to many more memories, friendships, and firsts along the way!

What books are you gifting the young readers in your life?