BONUS EPISODE - Nina’s fictional school
As promised, we've got even more school chat for you! This was cut from our last episode which was all about boarding schools in kidlit. Matt decided to interview Nina about the book that she's writin...
17 Sep 202216min
Episode 34 - Jolly Hockey Sticks, it’s the boarding school special!
This week we’re doing something a little different for our back to school episode, and digging in to a run down of the ins and outs of boarding schools in kidlit. Nina and Matt have each brought a f...
1 Sep 202241min
Episode 33 - Soon May The Wellerman Come (Nightbirds on Nantucket and Peggony-Po) with Ali Baker
This week we’re reading books about 19th century whaling. Our picture book is ‘Peggony-Po’ by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, and our chapter book is ‘Nightbirds on Nantucket’ by Joan Aiken ...
4 Aug 202253min
Episode 32 - The Wrong Side of The Door (Alfie Gets In First and Coraline) + special guest Simon Mole
This month our chapter book is Coraline by Neil Gaiman and our picture book is Alfie Gets in First by Shirley Hughes, which both involve being stuck on the wrong side of a door. We have a special gu...
7 Jul 202253min
Episode 31 - Hold On To Your Hats (A Hat Full of Sky and Millie’s Marvellous Hat) with guest cohost Dave Pickering
Content note: our chapter book touches on bullying, mortality and euthanasia. In discussing it, we also talk about dementia, and how Terry Pratchett dealt with it in his books for children. This is ...
2 Jun 202251min
Episode 30 - The Fairytale Multiverse (Each Peach Pear Plum and Rumaysa)
This week we’re joined by special guest Robert Valentine, to talk about one of his favourite kidlit picture books, Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg – a much loved classic which sees sev...
5 Mai 202242min
Episode 29 - TEETH! (Dave and the Tooth Fairy and Perez the Mouse)
CN: very mild gore about losing baby teeth, and some dicussion that might spoil some tooth fairy magic It's another episode about a chilhood milestone: losing your baby teeth! Matt and Nina chat a b...
7 Apr 202239min
Episode 28 - Mermaids! (The Little Mermaid and The Secret of Haven Point)
Welcome, listener, to this, our longest ever episode! EDITORS NOTE: the original version of this episode had a big editing mistake in it, which had Matt saying "able-bodied people can't write disabl...
3 Mar 20221h 2min
