Even the Trunchbull13 Jan 2022

Episode 26 - Winter Wheelies (I Love My Bike and Bicycling to the Moon)

Winter Wheelies Shownotes:

Happy New Year! Just after Christmas, there’ll be lots of us out on new bikes, so this episode is celebrating bicycles!

Our picture book is I Love My Bike by Simon Mole, illustrated by Sam Usher - a rip-roaring fast-paced adventure, beating out a bouncy rhythm and capturing the excitement of riding a bike for the first time

And our chapter book is Bicycling to the Moon by Timo Parvela, illustrated by Virpi Talvitie - a classic of Finnish kidlit which introduces us to Purdy and Barker - a dog and a cat with a dysfunctional but ultimately inseparable friendship.

Articles of Note:

I Love My Bike:

Information on Simon Mole’s other projects can be found at his website, here – https://www.simonmole.com

including sign-ups for fortnightly online poetry workshops for 5-12 year olds, here –https://www.simonmole.com/participate

Simon’s Youtube channel has loads of great tutorial videos for young poets and schools, here - https://www.youtube.com/c/SimonMole

More of Sam Usher’s work can be found at his website, here - https://www.samusher.com/

Nina mentions and reads from poem Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat by T. S. Eliot, which can be read here - https://monologues.co.uk/Childrens_Favourites/Skimbleshanks.htm

Bicycling to the Moon:

There’s a nice review from World Kid Lit which includes Bicycling to the Moon here - https://worldkidlit.wordpress.com/2021/02/17/more-animal-tales/

In the episode, Nina mentions Hector’s House, an episode of which can be seen here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_tVxvnEJko

More of Timo Parvela’s work can be found at his website, here - https://timoparvela.fi/en/

Previous episodes referenced in this episode are:

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame in Ep#7, I Am A Mole And I Live In A Hole: https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-7-i-am-a-mole-and-i-live-in-a-hole-the-story-of-the-little-mole-who-knew-it-was-none-of-his-business-and-the-wind-in-the-willows/

Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson in Ep#12, Dementia: https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-12-dementia-moominvalley-in-november-and-the-remember-balloons/

What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com

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