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
Episode 43 - The Writing On The Wall (Little Monster Did It and Illuminations)
This episode is all about scribbles on the wall, whether they be the work of a cheeky little monster, or a malicious scarling. The one person we're sure didn't do it is the child of the house! First i...
21 Aug 20251h 2min
Episode 42 - Tower Blocks (Boy in the Tower and The Concrete Garden)
Welcome back! We're kicking back off with a real cracking double act: Boy In The Tower, by Polly Ho-Yen, and The Concrete Garden, by Bob Graham. This episode is all about confinement, loneliness, is...
14 Aug 202559min
We're back!
Announcing series 7 of Even The Trunchbull! We're so excited to be back reading and chatting with you, so watch this space :-). What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ...
10 Aug 20252min
