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Podcast: The Children's Book Podcast
Episode: Meera Sriram
Description: Meera Sriram (@Meeratsriram) shares her debut picture book, THE YELLOW SUITCASE. In Meera's debut we meet Asha, who is traveling to India as she does with her family each year to visit her grandmother. But this year, they travel to mourn. Asha always brings a yellow suitcase which her grandmother fills with treats and trinkets to bring home. The suitcase in this way becomes a character in the story as well, waiting to be filled, expectant, but empty. This story is about processing loss, and I think that readers will leave grateful to have walked alongside Asha through her grieving...