Episode 56 - T-Rex Trilogy Terminus
For the first time in our long and storied history, we are finishing off a series! And what a series to complete. We read the first book back in 2020, and it's bittersweet to say goodbye to dinosaur-r...
26 Feb 46min
Episode 55 - Rub a Dub Dub (How To Give Your Cat A Bath : In Five Easy Steps and Time Tub Travellers and the Silk Thief)
This week, we're reading stories which feature bathtubs! And starring little girls who wear their hair in space buns. Our picture book is How To Give Your Cat A Bath : In Five Easy Steps, written by ...
19 Feb 50min
Episode 54 - I Am A Cat And I Like To Scratch (Into the Wild and Cat Nap) with special guest Liam
The headline news here is that we've got a special guest! Liam is our first young guest and he's brought us his second favourite book: Into the Wild, by Erin Hunter. Into the Wild is the introduction ...
12 Feb 52min
Episode 53 - Martial Arts Mastery (The Impossible Gladiator and Let's Go to Taekwondo)
We’re kicking off season nine with the third book in the Time Keys series: The Impossible Gladiator by MG Leonard. It’s a holiday book! Our pals Sim, Jeopardy and Nelson are in Rome to take in some cu...
5 Feb 56min
Episode 52 - Is Santa romanceable? (The Truth about Mrs Claus and Stepfather Christmas)
It's almost Christmas and we're in a silly, silly mood. Father Christmas is a wonderful mythological figure with loads of room still to stretch and change and imagine him. Today, we're looking at the ...
22 Dec 202555min
Episode 51 - Rootin, Tootin, Flutin and Lootin (Three Little Vikings and The Legend of Viking Thunder)
To wrap up season eight, we've got another episode with a silly name. These books are about Vikings, although, as Matt points out, nobody really called themselves Vikings; it would be like calling you...
20 Nov 202558min
Episode 50 - Angry Boys (The Boy Who Kicked Pigs and Angry Arthur) with guest Doug Deans
This episode is about little boys who live in cosy middle England at some point in the second half of the twentieth century and want to see the world burn. Both books were picked by our lovely guest D...
13 Nov 202558min
Episode 49 - All the world's a stage (Lights Up and Yes You Can, Cow!)
This week we're zooming in on a setting that's close to Matt's heart: the theatre. Actors and plays are often devices in children's stories, and often they're mocked, so here we are, giving them a who...
6 Nov 20251h 11min
