Even the Trunchbull10 Dec 2020

Episode 16 - Christmas! (Happy Christmas Gemma and I Saw Three Ships)

Our picture book is Happy Christmas Gemma by Sarah Hayes and Jan Ormerod. This one’s a nostalgia pick, for Nina especially, who had it read to her as a little one, and perfectly encapsulates Christmas cosiness, and the mix of pride and annoyance an older sibling has for a toddler sister.

And our chapter book is I Saw Three Ships by Elizabeth Goudge. This gorgeous short story takes us back to late 18th/early 19th century Cornwall/West Country for a retelling of the Three Wise Men. Steeped in legend, and Christmas cosiness, we loved this one.

Christmas giveaway update: We’ve added our fourth and final present to the Armchair Books totebag. This week we’ve added ‘What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions’ – a book for children aged 10 and up about masculinity. Friend and guest of the podcast Dave Pickering (from the Moomin episode) is a contributor and has generously given us a copy to give away to you! The book has been described as ‘Timely, necessary, attentive to and respectful of its young audience, this book is a friend which holds out an encouraging, steadying hand to any child or young person wanting to reach a full humanity unfettered by the limiting impositions of gender stereotypes.’ (https://www.letterboxlibrary.com/acatalog/What-is-Masculinity--Why-Does-It-Matter--And-Other-Big-Questions-1.html)

If you want to be in with a chance to win our bag of presents, just follow one of these links and comment to enter into the prize draw:

https://twitter.com/TrunchbullPod/status/1329367852357398528

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHxLlR4g8ny/

https://www.facebook.com/trunchbullpod/posts/157975092712391

Many thanks to Armchair Books of Edinburgh for letting us have one of their tote bags as a stocking.

You can find more of Dave Pickering’s work here - http://dave-pickering.squarespace.com/ or @goosefat101

What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com

Additional music this week was Holiday Weasel by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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