Scholastic's podcast about the joy and power of reading, the books we publish for children and young adults, and the authors, editors, and stories behind them. We’ll explore topics important to parents, educators, and the reader in all of us.
Scholastic Reads
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Scholastic's podcast about the joy and power of reading, the books we publish for children and young adults, and the authors, editors, and stories behind them. We’ll explore topics important to parents, educators, and the reader in all of us.
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July 21, 2025
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: From the classroom to Carnegie Hall
<p><strong>About This Episode</strong><br> For over 100 years, teens from throughout the country have participated in a storied American tradition – the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Originally conceived in 1923 as a way to celebrate student artists at a time when most awards focused on athletic achievements, the Awards have gone on to become the nation’s longest-running scholarship and recognition program for creative teens and have served as the launching pad for some of the most well-known and respected artists and writers of the last century, including the likes of Robert Redford, Sylvia Plath, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Zac Posen and Amanda Gorman.</p> <p>In today’s episode, host Billy DiMichele is joined by Chris Wisniewski, Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Karlotta Frier and Anyango Mpinga, two professional artists and national jurors for the 2025 Scholastic Awards, and Nia Cao, a teen writer and recipient of the 2025 New York Life Award, a sponsored Scholastic Award that recognizes outstanding works dealing with grief. Each of these interviews will explore a particular component of the Scholastic Art & Writing Award—from a work first being submitted through to a national winner taking a bow on the incomparable stage of Carnegie Hall.</p> <p>Listen to hear more about what makes a program like the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards so special, so enduring, and so necessary.</p> <p><strong>Resources</strong><br> About the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: <a href="https://www.artandwriting.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.artandwriting.org/</a><br> About the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers: <a href="https://www.artandwriting.org/the-alliance/" rel="nofollow">https://www.artandwriting.org/the-alliance/</a> <br> About the New York Life Award: <a href="https://www.artandwriting.org/scholarships/new-york-life-award" rel="nofollow">https://www.artandwriting.org/scholarships/new-york-life-award</a> <br> Gallery of teen work recognized in the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: <a href="https://www.artandwriting.org/gallery/" rel="nofollow">https://www.artandwriting.org/gallery/</a> <br> More listening: Scholastic Reads! Celebrating 100 Years of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards </p> <p><strong>Highlights</strong><br> <strong>Chris Wisniewski, Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers</strong></p> <p>“More than anything else, when we talk to teenagers and ask why did you enter the program? It was really about the opportunity to share their work, to have their work celebrated, particularly in their home communities, or even on the stage of Carnegie Hall. That’s a really extraordinary thing for a young person who’s at a crucial moment in their creative development and really thinking about what’s next for them. So that recognition is really important.”</p> <p>“We also see the Scholastic Awards as being almost like a big national tailgate party for art and culture. What we’re doing is bringing communities together all around the country to celebrate these young people who are doing extraordinary things in their art and writing.”</p> <p>“When you think about the fact that one out of every four high schools in the country has a young person who enters this program, we can rightfully say that we are conducting a celebration of creative teens on a truly national scale. And when we award 2-3,000 national medals, that really is a recognition of some of the very finest creative work that has happened anywhere in this country over the past year by teenagers.”</p> <p>“With 103 years of Scholastic Awards under our belt, that makes us a unique repository of teen creativity. We can tell a story about what young people were thinking about, and what was on their minds when they were making art and writing over the course of these past 100 years, and that’s something that’s unique to this program.”</p> <p>“The work that I find tends to resonate most powerfully with our jurors is the work that expresses a unique point of view. So young people who have the courage to really put themselves out there and to go beyond a classroom assignment or a sense of the expected, that’s always the best path, not just to winning a Scholastic Award, but to really developing as a creative. To remember to always be true to yourself first.”</p> <p><strong>Karlotta Frier, professional artist and 2025 national juror</strong></p> <p>[On what intrigued her about participating as a juror] “I got invited and didn’t know it was going to be so much fun and feel so important to me…Winning an award was really important to my path…and that experience of being seen by someone else other than my mom who always believed in me this whole time, but somebody else, in New York [meant] maybe I can do this.”</p> <p><strong>Anyango Mpinga, professional artist and 2025 national juror</strong></p> <p>[On the message she would want Scholastic Awards participants to hear] “I just want them to know that their voice is valid and to not change for anyone…If you’re really connected to who you are, and this is your creativity, the best thing you can do for yourself is cultivate that creativity and become even better than you were yesterday, and stick to it, and make that your voice…you have to stick to your guns, and you have to fight for yourself.”</p> <p><strong>_Nia Cao, teen poet and recipient of the 2025 New York Life Award _</strong></p> <p>“[My poem] was a really important work to me, and it was the first time that I processed [my uncle’s] death. Applying for the New York Life Award, it wasn’t something that I hesitated about. This is something that really resonates with my poem and with my work, and I think it was something that really tied into his legacy.”</p> <p>“It’s validating to be acknowledged and know that my poem resonated with someone, and it feels as if the judges are saying to me, ‘I see you, I hear you.’”</p> <p><strong>Special Thanks</strong><br> Producers: Allyson Barkan and Anne Sparkman<br> Sound engineer: S. Shin<br> Music composer: Lucas Elliot Eberl</p>
June 3, 2025
Branches and the magic of early chapter books
Editorial Director Katie Carella and author Bernard Mensah discuss the importance of early chapter books in fostering a love of reading in children, highlighting the Branches series and Kwame's Magic Quest in this interview.
April 3, 2025
Realize the Dream: A Conversation with Martin Luther King III, Arndrea King, and Andrea Davis Pinkney
<p>Realize the Dream is a visionary movement aimed at uniting communities to achieve an extraordinary goal: completing 100 million hours of service by January 15, 2029—the 100th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth.</p> <p>Inspired by Dr. King’s unwavering commitment to justice, equality, and a compassionate society, Realize the Dream embodies his vision of a strong, unified foundation for all. The initiative seeks to empower hundreds of thousands of teachers and bring hope to over six million students in underfunded schools across the United States.</p> <p>As a company deeply committed to education and literacy for every child, Scholastic has partnered with this transformative mission. And as part of this commitment, Scholastic will be donating half a million dollars’ worth of books over the course of the initiative to help support Realize the Dream’s ongoing programming. </p> <p>Late last year, Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King visited Scholastic Headquarters in New York City to discuss the initiative in a conversation moderated by award-winning author, and Scholastic Vice President and Editor, Andrea Davis Pinkney. In today’s episode, the Kings and Andrea are back, joining guest-host Billy DiMichele in the studio for another compelling conversation about Realize the Dream!</p> <p>→ Resources</p> <p>About Realize the Dream: Learn more about the initiative. </p> <p>About Martin Luther King III: Learn more about the American human rights activist, philanthropist, advocate and the eldest son of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior and Coretta Scott King. </p> <p>About Andrea Waters King: Learn more about the social justice leader and President of the nonprofit Drum Major Institute. </p> <p>About Andrea Davis Pinkney: Learn more about award-winning author award-winning author, and Scholastic Vice President and Editor.</p> <p>About Yolanda Renee King and We Dream a World: Learn more about the author, activist and sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Corette Scott King, and her book. </p> <p>Realizing the Dream with Scholastic: Kid Reporter Leyla Saldanha’s coverage of Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, and Yolanda Renee King’s October 2024 visit to Scholastic Headquarters to talk about the Realize the Dream initiative. </p> <p>We Dream a World: Celebrating Black History Month With Yolanda Renee King: Suzanne McCabe speaks with Yolanda Renee King and Andrea Davis Pinkney in this 2024 episode about the picture book We Dream a World: Carrying the Light from My Grandparents Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. </p> <p>→ Highlights </p> <p>*Martin Luther King III, American human rights activist, philanthropist, and advocate <br> *<br> “We wanted to create something that causes people to turn to each other. As we’re working together, we’re doing something that’s bigger than ourselves, in a climate, which is divided, this will hopefully begin to create the beginning elements of some level of community.” </p> <p>“What we really want is not to share what someone should do. What we want is people to decide for themselves what they want to do…What we know is when one is passionate about something, they’re going to do a better job.” </p> <p>“Civility is kindness. Civility is how we say, what we say. Because we can say it in a constructive way, or we can say it in a destructive way. And we need to be creating the climate for constructiveness.”</p> <p>“My greatest hope is that our nation becomes closer and not to just Realize the Dream, but people will realize their own dreams in a way that compliments everyone.” </p> <p><strong>Arndrea Waters King, social justice leader and President of the nonprofit Drum Major Institute</strong><br> “One person can make a difference. All together we can change the world.” </p> <p>“It is important, again, for all of us to find ourselves within the King legacy, but also for everyone to understand that if you’re doing something for someone else, if you’re serving your community, you are doing something to realize the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.” </p> <p>“Acknowledging the shared humanity of us all, at its core, is the foundational principle of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King’s work…As a humanity, we are all brothers and sisters. And that to me is what the cornerstone of what this movement is.”</p> <p>*Andrea Davis Pinkney, award-winning author and Vice President and Executive Editor, Scholastic Trade Publishing<br> *<br> “[Kids] want to take action. They’re big-hearted. And they know what it means to work together.”</p> <p>“As well all know, books change lives. Books spark conversations. And that’s what We Dream a World does. It’s changed lives. It has sparked conversations.”</p> <p>“Stories connect us. They unify us. They bring us together. In the case of the book, We Dream a World, it’s a jewel and a tool. It’s a jewel because it glistens, because its beautifully illustrated, because young people will engage with it and its beautifully written. It’s a tool, because it’s a way that young people can have the roadmap to say, “how do I make a change?” </p> <p>→ Special Thanks<br> Producers: Maxine Osa, Anne Sparkman, Allyson Barkan <br> Sound Engineer: S. Shin <br> Music Composer: Lucas Elliot Eberl </p> <p>→ Coming Soon<br> Art & Writing 2025 </p>
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