Episode 22 - Haunted Houses (Ghosts in the House! and The Monsters of Rookhaven)

This week our picture book is ‘Ghosts in the House!’ by Kazuno Kohara and our chapter book is ‘The Monsters of Rookhaven’ by Padraig Kenny

Articles referenced by Nina with Halloween craft activities for kids to go alongside Ghosts in the House can be found:

Here - https://hannahsartclub.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/spooky-haunted-houses-inspired-by-kazuno-kohara-october-2011/

 

And here - http://www.prayingforparker.com/ghosts-in-the-house-by-kazuno-kohara-and-an-extension-activity/

 

The photographic project Matt was mentioning can be seen on our social media accounts: @TrunchbullPod on twitter and @eventhetrunchbull on Instagram

 

The interview with Padraig Kenny, referenced by Matt, was conducted by Dave O’Callaghan for easons.com and can be viewed here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOgsAWK_mV0

 

An article detailing the buying of film and TV rights for ‘The Monsters of Rookhaven’ is here - https://www.thebookseller.com/news/dream-logic-snaps-rights-kennys-monsters-rookhaven-1274987

 

We also reference various of our own past episodes in this one, which can be found at the following links:

Ep 17: Howl’s Moving Castle - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-17-shooting-stars-look-up-and-howls-moving-castle/

Ep1: Not Now Bernard - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-1-monsters-young-werewolf-and-not-now-bernard/

Ep 2: Pog - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-2-grief-the-sad-book-and-pog/

Halloween Special #1: The Jumbies - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/halloween-special-1-ghosts-for-breakfast-and-the-jumbies/

 

We also mentioned A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicholl and The Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman.

 

Episode Transcript will follow later this week, and will be available here - https://eventhetrunchbull.wordpress.com/home/transcripts/

 

And as always you can check out our bookshop dot org shop front here - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/trunchbullpod

 

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