Even the Trunchbull

Episode 6 - Puppet Pals (Revenge of the Puppets and Pinocchio by Pinocchio)

So much to say about puppets! The picture book, Revenge of the Puppets by Nadine D'Souza and illustrated by Ayush Rajvanshi, gave us lots to link to: Here's a great video of a kathputli puppet doing ...

25 Juni 202037min

Episode 5 - Magical Sleep (A Book of Sleep and The Starlight Barking)

Welcome back to series 2! We're starting off with our longest and silliest episode yet, full of metaphysical debate, high and low swooshes and a tasteful description of a giraffe's bum. You can see t...

18 Juni 202048min

Special Mini Episode #1 and Book Giveaway!

Series 1 of ETTB is over and it's been so lovely! To keep youse going until series 2 (due on the 18th of June), we've put together a little quickfire round of reviews, and you now have the chance to w...

14 Maj 202010min

Episode 4 - Loneliness (The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon and Beegu)

This week we're reading around the theme of loneliness and we're reviewing one of Matt's all time favourites, the Boy Who Climbed into the Moon by David Almond. We talk about determinism, Jesus-like c...

7 Maj 202035min

Episode 3 - Made-Up Languages (Du Iz Tak? and The Giants and the Joneses)

Nina and Matt read Carson Ellis' beautiful picture book Du Iz Tak? and Julia Donaldson's chapter book The Giants and the Joneses. We talk about the languages invented by the authors, what role they pl...

30 Apr 202028min

Episode 2 - Grief (The Sad Book and Pog)

CN: bereavement, child death, parent death, sadness, depression, rage In this, our second ever episode, Nina and Matt go deep on Michael Rosen's lovely sad book and on a new favourite: Pog by Pádraig...

23 Apr 202033min

Episode 1 - Monsters (Young Werewolf and Not Now Bernard)

In this inaugural episode of Even the Trunchbull Nina and Matt read and discuss Cornelia Funke's Young Werewolf and Not Now Bernard by David McKee. What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative C...

16 Apr 202039min