Dec 3

Dec 3 Episode #40: Food

On this week’s #BFF episode, Grace and Alvina decide to talk about a more lighthearted subject matter…food! First, they discuss about what has been going on in each other’s live and generally catch-up as always.

Grace has been on the road traveling quite a bit and is pretty wiped out. PLUS, she has been giving up sugar for a 21-day challenge and that has been really hard while traveling especially. She is really missing those chai lattes! One of the highlights from her travels, was speaking with Jewell Parker Rhodes in Kalamazoo, MI.

Alvina has been working on her own challenge…getting her email inbox down to zero before the end of the year! She is a self-proclaimed “black hole” when it comes to e-mails.

For a trip down memory lane, Alvina and Grace remember the books that made them hungry as a kid! Mmmmmm…..chocolate!

Aside from the classic Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, many others come to mind such as Little Women, Little House on the Prairie, and Twenty-One Balloons. You can listen to what other books gave them the ultimate food cravings when they were kids!

“What did you like to eat WHILE you were reading?” Curling up with an apple and a book comes to mind. Grace mentions that reading while eating is one of the greatest pleasures in life.

Grace and Alvina end each episode with expressing what they’re grateful for. Grace is grateful for spending a few days at home after being away so much traveling. Alvina is grateful for audio books because she doesn’t always have time to read. She also created a date idea and instead of going out to dinner or something typical, she and her boyfriend decided to just be together while independently reading books.

2-Minute Book Review by Alison Morris:

“Some Places More Than Others”- By Renee Watson.

Alison Morris is a nationally recognized children's book buyer with an infectious enthusiasm for reading and 20 years' experience matching books to readers. As the Senior Director of Title Selection for nonprofit First Book, she oversees the curation of children’s and young adult books on the First Book Marketplace, hand-selecting a diverse range of titles that speak to and address the needs of kids in underserved communities, with a keen eye to inclusion, authenticity, and kid-appeal. She previously served as Senior Editor at Scholastic Book Clubs, Children's Book Buyer for Wellesley Booksmith and The Dartmouth Bookstore, and was the founding blogger of the ShelfTalker children’s book blog for Publishers Weekly. She'll be joining us from her home near Washington, DC where she spends LOTS of time discussing books with her husband, illustrator and graphic novelist Gareth Hinds.