Children’s authors read reviews of their own books: the encore!

A month ago today, I posted videos of 53 kidlit authors/illustrators being good sports and reading aloud a particularly critical excerpt from a particularly harsh online review.

Those are episodes 1-3.

Turns out a lot of people agree that a bad review can equal a good laugh.

Thirty more authors have since enlisted in the cause.

Welcome to episodes 4-6.


All-new line-up! All-new beat downs!

(Disclaimer: We lurve kids, of course, but this is for teens and adults only.)

The cast (not in order of appearance, so that you will watch all three):

Kathi Appelt David Lubar Gene Barretta Eric Luper Michael Buckley Maryann Macdonald Shana Corey Marissa Moss Sharon Creech Gae Polisner Doreen Cronin Nora Raleigh Baskin Katie Davis Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich Sue Fliess Dan Santat Liz Garton Scanlon Tammi Sauer Chris Grabenstein Judy Schachner Alan Katz Andrew Smith Laurie Keller Elizabeth Rose Stanton Jarrett J. Krosoczka David Ezra Stein Tara Lazar Deborah Underwood Loren Long Emma Walton Hamilton
episode 4



episode 5



episode 6



“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.” —Marie Osmond