About Us
NewberyTart is a podcast about kids’ books, for adults, and is recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, by two friends who approach the Newbery thing from very different, but surprisingly complementary, directions.
Marcy Cornell is addicted to Newbery books. She has at least a reading copy of every single one of them, and has a long-term goal of collecting them all in first printings.
She worked for ten years as a bookseller at the best bookstore in the known universe, an independent children’s bookstore called Little Shop of Stories. You should go there. In addition to many other fine qualities, they feed her obsession by regularly bringing in Newbery authors for her to harass.
You can reach her at marcy@newberytart.com.
Jennie Law is a Reference & Instruction Librarian at Georgia State University. She’s a long time Newbery fangirl, an intersectional, feminist comics researcher, and an indomitable crafter. Jennie can most always be found reading somewhere in Atlanta. She also served on the 100th Newbery Committee in 2022.
She can be reached at jennie@newberytart.com.
One More Thing:
We’ve had a LOT of help along the way, and we want to (publicly and profusely) express our gratitude.
Our editor, Harper W. Harris of Strange World Sound, has been making podcasts, movies, and videos of all kinds sound awesome since 2013. Go hire him and pay him lots of money so we don’t feel so bad about imposing on him.
Our music was written and performed by Alan Thornton of the Throckmorton Ukulele Band, whom we highly recommend for all your ukulele music needs. You can find him at https://www.facebook.com/throckukeband/
Our voiceover work was done by Ariana Hargrave, who sounds SO. FANCY.
Our graphic design was provided by Liz Mytinger, who is amazing and was not at all daunted to be asked to add glasses and eyelashes to anthropomorphic blueberries. Check out her work here.
We’d like to thank Little Shop of Stories for bringing such wonderful authors to town and for not minding (too much) when we mooch off of their efforts. We’d also like to thank the Dekalb County Public Library and Georgia State University Libraries for being such excellent resources for Newbery research.
Last but not least, our husbands provide the vast majority of our technical and emotional support, not to mention child care, and have picked up some very weird ingredients from various purveyors of food and alcohol on our behalf. Raphael and Liam, this wouldn’t be possible without you.