Episode 29 - Never Earned a Personal Pan Pizza with Susanna Chapman

Books with Betsy

On this episode, Susanna Chapman, an illustrator who loves picture books, discusses her career in books, her love for an audiobook mausoleum, and why she loves the beginning of a book. We also destigmatize her concern around her main reading format and she tricks me into answering one of my own questions.

The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith

Pre-Order Dragonflies of Glass: the True Story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Books Highlighted by Susanna:

Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang

Twenty Questions by Mac Barnett & Christian Robinson

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst & Ray Cruz

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Bear & The Moon by Matthew Burgess & Catia Chien

I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott & Sydney Smith

Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni

Daughters & Rebels by Jessica Mitford

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home by Zahra Marwan

It Came From the Trees by Ally Russel

This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewel & Aurelia Durand

Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious by David Dark

Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That’s Fighting Back by Blake Chastain

How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

The People’s Plaza: Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance by Justin Jones

Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams & William Nicholson

After the Fall by Dan Santat

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Snail and Worm: Three Stories about Two Friends by Tina Kügler

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Seeing, Saying, Doing, Playing by Taro Gomi

Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Spinning by Tillie Walden

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Napping House by Audrey Wood & Don Wood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib

It Won’t Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshefgh

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson

Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster & Jules Feiffer