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
Episode 46 - 80s Girl Power (The Paper Bag Princess and Alanna: The First Adventure)
Today we're looking at books written in the eighties and aiming to empower girls. First up, we have a listener request: The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko. So good it was e...
10 Sep 202552min
Episode 45 - The New Girl (Super Goat Girl and Jummy at the River School)
It's our annual back to school episode, and this year, we're reading books about being the new girl. First, we're accompanying Super Goat Girl for her first day in Miss Damsel's classroom. Noodle Boy ...
4 Sep 202558min
Episode 44 - Squawkwels (Freedom Fire and A First Book of Dinosaurs)
This week we're righting past wrongs and returning to a couple of authors we said we'd check back in with and never did. First up is Freedom Fire, from the Dactyl Hill Squad trilogy by Daniel Jose Old...
28 Aug 202559min
