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Tish Rabe — 200+ Kids’s Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Classes from Early Sesame Road, How one can Write 300+ Songs, and Extra (#854)

February 22, 2026
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Tish Rabe (@tishrabebooks) is the New York Instances bestselling creator of greater than 200 kids’s books, with greater than 11 million copies bought. She has written for Sesame Road, Disney, PBS Children, Curious George, Clifford, and plenty of extra. In 1991, following the loss of life of Dr. Seuss, she was requested by Random Home to put in writing The Cat within the Hat’s Studying Library, a sequence of science books for early readers that have been the brainchild of Dr. Seuss, who died earlier than he may end the primary one. Tish has written greater than 50 Cat within the Hat books in addition to books for the Grinch and the Lorax. 

Skilled as knowledgeable singer, she started her profession because the music manufacturing assistant for Sesame Road in its first seasons and was employed by Jim Henson to sing for the Muppets. She has written greater than 300 kids’s songs for broadcast tv, is an animation head author and scriptwriter, was a inventive marketing consultant for the Cartoon Community, Scholastic, and HBO Household and now heads her personal kids’s e book publishing firm, Tish Rabe Books.

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Timestamps

  • [00:00:00] Who is Tish Rabe?
  • [00:00:24] How an opera main turned a bestselling kids’s creator and songwriter.
  • [00:03:12] Tish’s trashy debut on tv treasure Sesame Road.
  • [00:03:36] Pitching a childhood reminiscence to useless silence — and touchdown e book primary.
  • [00:07:27] The worth of writing a narrative’s ending first.
  • [00:09:42] Jim Henson: The type, mild large with a thoughts of metal.
  • [00:10:58] Preserving children and their mother and father entertained with double-level humor.
  • [00:11:38] How Tish put her music coaching to work with Huge Fowl and Oscar the Grouch.
  • [00:18:56] From nine-note auditions to signing on with Sesame Road‘s mission to stage the kindergarten taking part in discipline.
  • [00:22:48] Churning out kids’s books and writing bangers about animal gestation intervals and lumber measurement for 3-2-1 Contact.
  • [00:26:56] The zero-rhyming genius of Joe Raposo’s “Bein’ Inexperienced” and why it really works.
  • [00:29:59] Curriculum is king: Focus teams, orange Oscar, and ensuring the youngsters aren’t misplaced.
  • [00:32:16] Random Home rejected her e book, however the late Dr. Seuss took a re-evaluation.
  • [00:37:17] Accepting the Widow Seuss’s problem to put in writing a e book for infants in utero and ending up with a  bestseller.
  • [00:40:39] The key to excellent rhyme in Dr. Seuss’s paradigm.
  • [00:44:14] Is rhyming part of Tish’s DNA, or did she study it alongside the way in which?
  • [00:48:12] The time Tish remodeled a planet from pizza into nickels to make her deadline.
  • [00:49:45] Has music as a mission preserved Tish’s cognition?
  • [00:55:10] What does Tish intention to do with the corporate she began in her 70s?
  • [01:01:18] Generally Aside, All the time in My Coronary heart: A army child’s e book born from a POW father’s legacy and a high-five traced on paper.
  • [01:05:30] Alaska the stuffed canine, monetary literacy bunnies, hallucinated seagulls, and 843 acres of Central Park in 24 pages.
  • [01:12:54] Tish’s marketing campaign to get free books to children in underserved neighborhoods.
  • [01:14:02] Recommendation for aspiring kids’s e book authors.
  • [01:15:42] Tish doesn’t get derailed by author’s block — she prepares for it.
  • [01:17:24] When Michelle Obama added 16 pages to a e book Tish thought could be boring.
  • [01:19:37] Huge Fowl in China, 1982: One hand-painted costume, 13 days of rain, zero espresso, and a five-year-old who memorized the fallacious script.
  • [01:23:41] Tish’s billboard.
  • [01:24:38] Kindness is Caring, Friendship is Sharing and different parting ideas.

TISH RABE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Tish Rabe’s a mother who thinks that it’s cool to be residence rhyming rhymes whereas her children are at college.” — Tish Rabe

“You do not need to have children to put in writing for youths.” — Tish Rabe

“My first job was hiring the jingle singers in Manhattan to sing with Jim Henson’s Muppets. So I sang all day. I sang after I typed, and I sang after I filed, and I sang after I answered the telephone. ‘Sesame Road, could I aid you?’ Nicely, after a yr, all people was so uninterested in listening to me sing on a regular basis that they stated, ‘Would you prefer to sing on Sesame Road with the Muppets?’” — Tish Rabe

“There may be nothing like giving a e book to a toddler who doesn’t have a e book. I’m on this lifetime mission of attempting to get free books to children who don’t have any.” — Tish Rabe

“Bear in mind: the kids are our most treasured reward. I get involved about the way in which the world goes. I simply need all people to do not forget that they’re essentially the most treasured a part of our world. As a result of they’re the longer term, they’re the desires of the longer term, and we should take excellent care of them. And browse, learn, learn.” — Tish Rabe

“I actually encourage all people. All people’s all the time, ‘Yeah, however you’ve obtained this stunning voice, and also you sing on a regular basis, and I can’t sing.’ And I simply attempt to say to all people—and I imply this from the underside of my coronary heart—you’ll be able to sing. It doesn’t matter if it’s croaky, it doesn’t matter what it appears like, the one voice your baby desires to listen to is yours.” — Tish Rabe

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