Even the Trunchbull

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

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

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

This month on Even the Trunchbull, we have a listener recommendation! Namely, Momo by Michael Ende (well known as the author of The Never Ending Story) as our chapter book, on a theme of ‘Time’ – so t...

3 Feb 202246min

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, i...

13 Jan 202234min

Our books for this final episode of Even The Trunchbull for 2021 are loosely linked around pets at Christmas!   The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser features Paganini the rabbit, Fra...

23 Des 202153min

The festive season is in full swing, the Christmas TV ads have all aired, and by far the most popular this year is A Christmas Carrot, from Aldi! And they even brought out a picture book. In classic E...

19 Des 20219min

This week our picture book is Yokki and the Parno Gry by Katharine Quarmby and Ricard O’Neill – a story about a young boy in a Romani Traveller family, and the power of stories themselves   And our ch...

2 Des 202138min