Episode 54 - I Am A Cat And I Like To Scratch (Into the Wild and Cat Nap) with special guest Liam
The headline news here is that we've got a special guest! Liam is our first young guest and he's brought us his second favourite book: Into the Wild, by Erin Hunter. Into the Wild is the introduction ...
12 Feb 52min
Episode 53 - Martial Arts Mastery (The Impossible Gladiator and Let's Go to Taekwondo)
We’re kicking off season nine with the third book in the Time Keys series: The Impossible Gladiator by MG Leonard. It’s a holiday book! Our pals Sim, Jeopardy and Nelson are in Rome to take in some cu...
5 Feb 56min
Episode 52 - Is Santa romanceable? (The Truth about Mrs Claus and Stepfather Christmas)
It's almost Christmas and we're in a silly, silly mood. Father Christmas is a wonderful mythological figure with loads of room still to stretch and change and imagine him. Today, we're looking at the ...
22 Des 202555min
Episode 51 - Rootin, Tootin, Flutin and Lootin (Three Little Vikings and The Legend of Viking Thunder)
To wrap up season eight, we've got another episode with a silly name. These books are about Vikings, although, as Matt points out, nobody really called themselves Vikings; it would be like calling you...
20 Nov 202558min
Episode 50 - Angry Boys (The Boy Who Kicked Pigs and Angry Arthur) with guest Doug Deans
This episode is about little boys who live in cosy middle England at some point in the second half of the twentieth century and want to see the world burn. Both books were picked by our lovely guest D...
13 Nov 202558min
Episode 49 - All the world's a stage (Lights Up and Yes You Can, Cow!)
This week we're zooming in on a setting that's close to Matt's heart: the theatre. Actors and plays are often devices in children's stories, and often they're mocked, so here we are, giving them a who...
6 Nov 20251h 11min
Episode 48 - Jump scares from the 90s (Monster Blood and Funnybones: The Ghost Train)
There are two things we always celebrate over here at Even The Trunchbull: back to school, and of course, Halloween. This is a nostalgic one for us! We are reading two spooky books that came out the y...
30 Okt 202548min
Episode 47 - Fat (Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek and Dim Sum Palace)
It's the long-awaited episode about fat kids in kidlit. We could go on forever about all the negative representation of fatness in children's literature, but it has taken us years to find two books th...
23 Okt 20251h 3min
