Melody Bodette
Melody Bodette is co-producer of But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. She is co-author of two But Why books, Are Llamas Ticklish? and Do Fish Breathe Underwater?
Before launching But Why, she worked in Vermont Public's newsroom as a production assistant, Morning Edition producer, deputy news director and freelance reporter. In 2022, she was part of a team that won a national Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation. Melody got her start in journalism freelancing for local business journals and working as a news and editorial assistant at the Burlington Free Press.
She lives in Vermont.
Are Llamas Ticklish? and Do Fish Breathe Underwater? two new But Why books were published in June 2022 by Grosset & Dunlap, a division of Penguin Random House. These children's non-fiction titles answer real questions from curious kids like, why is milk white? And are jellyfish made of jelly? Learn more and pre-order here.