Jennifer Payne on Sounds of America and Finding a Place to Belong

Podcast: Reading With Your Kids Podcast · Jedlie Circus Productions, Inc

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

Madison Lucchesi welcomes Jennifer Payne to discuss her picture book, Sounds of America, which follows a young Italian boy traveling from Naples to New York Harbor. Through the sounds he encounters, the story explores how children experience new places, community, safety, and belonging. Drawing on 25 years as a teacher, Jennifer shares her belief that children learn best when teaching connects with their individual interests and senses. She uses joyful language, sound, visuals, and playful reading to spark engagement and help ideas stick. For her, reading is a relationship: grown-ups can watch children's expressions and body language, then...