Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

A graphic showing individuals reading a paper, listening to the radio, watching video, using a computer and using a phone.

Survey: How do you get your news and entertainment?

Tell us how you use the radio, along with social media, smartphones, tablets, streaming and the web to stay connected to entertainment, news and updates from MTPR and other sources. Whether you use all these things or none, your response is helpful.

Carson Ellis

Arts & Life

‘Make Believe’: Mac Barnett writes first book for adults, widens the aperture of what children’s books can be

Lauren Korn

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Mac Barnett, National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and the author of ‘Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children’ (Little, Brown & Company), his first book written for adults.
Children's

Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis re-tell the story of ‘Rumpelstiltskin’

Lauren Korn

Picture Book Picnicker Lauren Korn invites the National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature, writer Mac Barnett, and illustrator Carson Ellis on a picnic to talk about their newest collaboration, a re-telling of ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ (Orchard Books, Scholastic Inc.).