Kathleen Holt
Coordinator, HPPR Radio Readers Book ClubKathleen Holt has served High Plains Public Radio—in one way or another—since its inception in 1979. Currently “quasi-retired,” she volunteers as Coordinator of the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. As a former HPPR staff member, Holt worked with a board committee to establish Legacy and Endowed Funds to provide for public radio into the future. Holt’s community development projects have upgraded the signals for many of HPPR’s translators, including KCSE (Prowers County, Colorado) and KONQ established with a partnership with Dodge City Community College to bring full time public radio to the area. “The thing I love best about the book club is re-connecting with many HPPR supporters across the High Plains, while also meeting new public radio friends across the five-state region," Holt says. "It’s not only about friends, but those friends are readers ready to explore the issues we all face living and working in our region.”
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Theo Byrne, an astrobiologist, thought searching the cosmos might be his biggest challenge, but single-handedly raising his special nine-year-old son Robin after the death of his mother, Theo’s wife, turns out to be a much more meaningful task. -
I’m Kathleen Holt, Coordinator of the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. The following Radio Readers BookByte is a repeat of one originally aired in 2017 and is offered in memory of its author Thomas F. Pecore (Pay-corE) Weso who died July 14, 2023, in Healdsburg, California.
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A member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation as well as a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.
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Radio Reader BookBytes will air each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during All Things Considered and Morning Edition.Listen for “Poetry Popups” as we’ve paired special poetry collections with each of the books featured.
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Hi! I’m Calliope from Wichita and I’ve been reading a lot this summer between Scout camp, jazz classes, and – well, regular reading!
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A True Kansas Story written by Joel Condray and illustrated by Mark Ward is about a person who found dinosaur bones. He was telling the story to his grandson and then at the end of the book, his grandson says there is no greater treasure than my grandpa.
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The title of the book is Barefoot Dreams and the author is Alda P Dobbs. This book was so touching for us because it talked about immigration and in our family, we know what that word means.
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Thank you for joining us for the High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club. I’m Jessica Sadler, a Science Teacher and STEAM facilitator in Olathe, Kansas. I am here with the other book leaders to discuss Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff.
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Our final book, the fourteenth in our series is Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff's harrowing vision New Zealand's indigenous people some two hundred years after the English conquest.
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Our thirteenth book is a remarkable true tale that outlines the experiences of Malala Yousafzai who refused to be silenced by the Taliban when it took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.
