Episode · How I Write · 2026-04-22
David Perell & Tish Rabe: books mentioned on How I Write
Tish Rabe: How to Write Children’s Books | How I Write
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Tish Rabe discussed Kindness Is Caring, Friendship Is Sharing by Tish Rabe, Sweet Dreams Ahead Time for Bed by Tish Rabe, Sometimes Apart, Always in My Heart by Tish Rabe, There's No Place Like Space! All About Our Solar System by Tish Rabe, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, Is a Camel a Mammal? by Tish Rabe, Fine Feathered Friends by Tish Rabe, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Wise Brown, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss, and Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss. David Perell discussed Night by Elie Wiesel and Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Kindness Is Caring, Friendship Is Sharing
Discussed“This is a book of mine that just came out, Kindness is Caring, Friendship is Sharing, which I wrote with Trumbull Rotary Club, and they're an organization that tries to make the world a kinder, gentler place.”
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Sweet Dreams Ahead Time for Bed
Discussed“This is uh some Sorry, this is Sweet Dreams Ahead, Time for Bed. And it is helping kids slow down.”
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Sometimes Apart, Always in My Heart
Discussed“This is Sometimes Apart, Always in My Heart, helping military families send love from far away. And I wrote this with a nonprofit called United Through Reading.”
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There's No Place Like Space! All About Our Solar System
Discussed“There's No Place Like Space all about our solar system. And it opens up pretty fast.”
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The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat by Dr.
Discussed“Well, for those of you out there that might have picked up on this, those last two lines were in the original Cat in the Hat book.”
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Is a Camel a Mammal?
Discussed“Random House developed the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library and the first two books they asked me to do was Is a Camel a Mammal and Fine Feathered Friends.”
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Fine Feathered Friends
Discussed“Random House developed the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library and the first two books they asked me to do was Is a Camel a Mammal and Fine Feathered Friends.”
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Night
Night by Elie Wiesel is a dark and powerful memoir detailing the author's harrowing experiences in the Holocaust.
Discussed“I think that there's a moment in Night by Elie Wiesel, which is obviously about a completely different subject, but the Holocaust.”
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.
Discussed“my mother used to read us The Wizard of Oz, the original re well, Wizard of Oz.”
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Where the wild things are
Maurice Sendak's Where the wild things are is a beloved children's picture book that follows a young boy named Max on an imaginative journey to a land of fantastical creatures before returning safely to his bedroom.
Discussed“I think about Where the Wild Things Are, obviously that's animals. 100%.”
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Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown is a beloved, timeless children's picture book that follows a young bunny bidding a gentle goodnight to every object in the great green room.
Discussed“They're reading Goodnight Moon. They were reading Very Hungry Caterpillar. It was wonderful.”
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is a universally beloved children's picture book that follows a ravenous insect's journey from a tiny egg to a beautiful butterfly, teaching young readers about counting, days of the week, and metamorphosis.
Discussed“They're reading Goodnight Moon. They were reading Very Hungry Caterpillar. It was wonderful.”
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Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr.
Discussed“I have a book that's a runaway bestseller called Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go. And it was the only time I heard from Dr. Seuss's widow, Audrey Geisel, and she called me herself.”
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Horton Hears a Who!
Dr.
Discussed“I went and wrote Horton Hears a Who and Horton Hatches the Egg and Yertle the Turtle and Thidwick the Moose and I read them all.”
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Horton Hatches the Egg
Discussed“I went and wrote Horton Hears a Who and Horton Hatches the Egg and Yertle the Turtle and Thidwick the Moose and I read them all.”
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Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a classic collection of children's tales written and illustrated by Dr.
Discussed“I went and wrote Horton Hears a Who and Horton Hatches the Egg and Yertle the Turtle and Thidwick the Moose and I read them all.”
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Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
Discussed“I went and wrote Horton Hears a Who and Horton Hatches the Egg and Yertle the Turtle and Thidwick the Moose and I read them all.”
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