Media — Susan Edwards Richmond

Children’s Books

Bird Count was featured in Carolyn Coombs blog, An-Animal-a-Month: Birds.

Bird Count was chosen as a 2021 Mathical Honor Book!

The International Literacy Association selected Bird Count as their 2020 Primary Fiction Award winner!

A Mighty Girl blog featured Bird Count as their Pick of the Day!

NSTA’s Teaching Through Trade Books Sept/Oct column by Christine Ann Royce features Bird Count!

Leslie Gang spoke with me about Bird Count for Hindi’s Libraries Let’s Get Literary podcast series. Watch the interview here.

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison has selected Bird Count as a CCBC Choices 2020.

Bird Count has been selected as a 2020 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens.

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) nominated Bird Count for its 2020 Notable Children’s Book list.

Laurie Smollett Kutscera featured Bird Count on her Read On! blog on Thursday, March 19, 2020.

The Children’s Book Council has included Bird Count on its recommended list of books featuring strong women of color.

Shosana Flax features Bird Count among a flock of new books in "The Birds and the Bees,” The Horn Book.

Karen Brudnak featured Bird Count in her blog on Learning Magazine, All for the Birds! Read about other citizen science opportunities and comment on the blog for a chance to win a prize.

Kate Narita featured Bird Count on Teachers/Books/Readers! on December 16, 2019. Responses to 2nd graders questions about the book and a giveaway!

PRI’s Living on Earth visits Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Community Preschool for a reading of Bird Count, and a morning with one of my preschool classes. Listen at Living on Earth or live on a local NPR station this weekend, December 14 or 15.

Kaitlyn Leann Sanchez posted an author interview and book giveaway on her Math is Everywhere blog. Read interview here.

11/21/2019“Get Ready for the Christmas Bird Count with These Books” by Maureen Schlosser at Knowledge Quest, Journal of the American Association of School LIbrarians

Bird Count has been selected as a Parents’ Choice Silver Award Honor winner!

Sudbury, MA, reading at Wild Birds Unlimited written up in the Sudbury Town Crier

Only Picture Books review by Ryan G. Van Cleave and Linda Shute

October 22 Librarian’s Quest: Numbering Our Avian Neighbors

Dear Author gives Bird Count a Starred Recommended Read

Tuesday Debut interview with Susanna Leonard Hill

Be My Guest author interview with host Jan Lewis

2019 CYBILS Award Nomination for Fiction Picture Books

Thank you to Cindy Minnich and the Nerdy Book Club for hosting my trailer reveal.

Maria Marshall selected Bird Count for Perfect Picture Book Friday #PPBF. Read the author interview on The Picture Book Buzz.

Read new interviews with Bird Count author Susan Edwards Richmond and illustrator Stephanie Fizer Coleman.

Audubon Magazine selected Bird Count as one of their “Ten Birdy Children’s Books to Read with Your Fledglings.”

Read about my collaboration with Connie Bergstein Dow on the creation of a dance and movement activity to accompany Bird Count!

Bird Count was chosen as a “picture book crush” on Let’s Talk Picture Books for the week of July 28 through August 3!

Stephanie Fizer Coleman talks about her fascination with birds, and about illustrating Bird Count in this interview!

Read my interview with the fabulous debut author’s group On the Scene in 2019. Then check out the other wonderful author debuts at On the Scene in ‘19.

Sneak peek of Bird Count on National Bird Count Day, January 5. Check it out on Twitter.

Susan Orsen Orpilla interviews Susan Edwards Richmond about her poetry and her children’s picture book debut, Bird Count! Read the interview, ”Author Combines Love of Words and Nature” in Fifty Plus Advocate.

Talkin’ Birds interview with Ray Brown about poetry and birds, children and nature, and my debut children’s picture book, Bird Count! Live from Mass Audubon’s 27th Annual Birder’s Meeting on March 3, 2019. Interview #717.

Book Nest Reviews on Talkin’ Birds Radio Show

Check out my reviews of new books about birds on Ray Brown’s Talkin’ Birds radio show! Field guides and scientific studies to bird adventure stories and children’s picture books. Listen live on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. EDT, download the podcast on the Talkin’ Birds archive, or check them out under Book Nest Book Reviews.

Sunday (12/6/20) show #809: Bird Watch by Kathleen Yale and Bird Count by Susan Edwards Richmond, illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman.

Sunday (11/8/20) show #805: Hello, Crow by Candace Savage, illustrated by Chelsea O’Byrne and Silent Swoop: An Owl, an Egg, and a Warm Shirt Pocket by Michelle Houts, illustrated by Deb Hoeffner.

Sunday (9/20/20) show #797: Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds by Wenfei Tong.

Sunday (8/9/20) show #792: Curious About Birds and About Seabirds both by Cathryn Sill, illustrated by John Sill.

Sunday (7/19/20) show #789: Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America and Birds of Colombia, translated by Fernando Ayerbe Quinones.

Sunday (6/28/20) show #786: A Perfect Day by Sarah S. Brannen and Lali’s Feather written by Farhana Zia and illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman.

Sunday (5/31/20) show #780: Numenia and the Hurricane by Fiona Halliday and Hummingbird by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Jane Ray.

**Take the Blog Tour for Bird Count’s debut!**

Monday (9/23): A Year of Reading

Tuesday (9/24): The Silvan Reverie

Wednesday (9/25): Edventures with Kids

Thursday (9/26): Librarian in Cute Shoes

Monday (9/30): The Picture Book Buzz: Book Birthday Interview with Maria Marshall: Making Nature Fun

Friday (10/4): The Picture Book Buzz: Perfect Picture Book Fridays

October 14-16: Nature Book Nook on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Poetry

PRI’s Living on Earth featured me reading my poem, “One Log Per Visit, Never the Same Log Twice” for April Poetry Month. Click here to listen.

Poet to Poet, Writer to Writer, Interview with Doug Holder on Susan's book Before We Were Birds at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Py8faoQQ1U

Mass Poetry interview, Getting to Know Susan Edwards Richmond and Her New Book Before We Were Birds

Verse Daily, the online website, highlighted the poem, "Homage, Orby Head" from Before We Were Birds on May 5, 2017

Elizabeth Lund interviews Susan Edwards Richmond about Before We Were Birds on Poetic Lines

Ibbetson Street Review published “Sparrows” in June 2017 issue.

Lawrence Kessenich reviews Before We Were Birds in The Somerville Times, May 17, 2017

Mass Poetry publishes interview with Susan Edwards Richmond and David Davis on Plein Air: Poetry In and About the Natural World

Entropy Interview with Gary Metras about Adastra Press, March 8, 2016

PRI’s Living on Earth featured “Longspur in a Field with Larks,” and an interview with the poet to Celebrate National Poetry Month on April 13, 2012

Mass Poetry publishes "Beginners," January 8, 2012

Web Del Sol publishes “Consumed”

Gary Metras interviews Susan Edwards Richmond about Increase on the Jane Crown Show, July 25, 2010

Eleanor Goodman reviews Purgatory Chasm, November 14, 2007