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A kidlit review podcast focusing on one picture book and one chapter book each week. Hosted by Nina and Matt.
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Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
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:
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
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Happy back to school times listeners!
This month we're reading lovely autobiographical picture book The Year I Didn't Go to School by Giselle Potter. Italian nuns and pasta with eggs abound!
And for our chapter book we're doing an old favourite of both of ours, the Wind Singer, by William Nicholson. It's fantastically critical of the exams system and more relevant now even than when it was written (in our humble opinions).
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
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Hello lovely listeners, Nina and Matt here to announce brand new Even the Trunchbull episodes coming in the autumn. Our first episode back will be about WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION and it'll come out on the 2nd of September. We'll be reading The Year I Didn't Go to School by Giselle Potter and The Wind Singer by William Nicholson.
From here on out ETTB is going to be a monthly show, publishing on the first Thursday of every month.
As always, you can email us your book suggestions at eventhetrunchbull@gmail.com, or catch us on twitter and facebook @trunchbullPod, or on instagram @eventhetrunchbull. Episode transcripts can be found on our website https://eventhetrunchbull.wordpress.com/home/transcripts/ and if you like our recommendations, you can shop for them at our storefront https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/trunchbullpod
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
To wrap up series five, we're doffing our hats to audiobook narrators. First Nina and Matt meander down memory lane, reminiscing about books on tape we listened to in the 1990s. Then we move on to recommend a clutch of excellent narrators:
Cecelia Ramsdale, who performed Pog by Padraig Kenny
Ben Onwukwe, who we enjoyed reading Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor
Aoife MacMahon, who amongst others has performed Begone the Raggedy Witches by Celine Kiernan
David Tennant, with The Wizards of Once series by Cressida Cowell, and others
And Malcolm Hamilton, David Almond’s regular audiobook performer it seems, who reads The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon and The Tale of Angelino Brown
We crowdsourced this one a little bit - thank you to all who submitted your favourite audiobook narrators! Here are the other recommendations that we got:
Huw Parmenter, reading Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones
Alex Jennings, reading The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Miriam Margolyes, reading Matilda by Roald Dahl and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by CS Lewis
Carl Prekopp, reading the Half Bad series by Sally Green (fyi, this is YA, not kidlit)
Simon Russell Beale, reading Children of the Red King, by Jenny Nimmo
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
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
This week we’re reading around the theme of ‘Not Quite Nuclear’ . . . we’re reading books about found family and unusual family set-ups
Our picture book is Burglar Bill by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (one of Matt’s childhood favourites)
And our chapter book is Wilde, by Eloise Williams, which is a new favourite for both of us
Wilde is published by Firefly Press, which is an independent children’s and Young Adult publisher based in Wales. You can get a copy from Wilde from them here - https://fireflypress.co.uk/books/wilde/
We strongly encourage supporting independent presses!
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
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Spaghetti, magic and Italian cities abound in this episode! We kick off the discussion with the treasure that is Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. Lovely, naive, almost tapestry-like illustrations and a simple folk tale.
And then we indulge in another Diana Wynne Jones: The Magicians of Caprona! In this second book of the Chrestomanci series we visit a world where song is magic, and magic is song. Romeo and Juliet influences are thick in the air; there is, as usual with Diana Wynne Jones, a war just over the horizon. And, if you weren't sold yet, some brilliant cat characters the likes of which we haven't seen since The Amazing Maurice.
We reference our Shooting Stars episode about Howl's Moving Castle too, which you can find here.
You can see and purchase all the books we've ever discussed at our bookshop dot org shopfront here.
Transcripts are available on our website here.
Our intro music, What A Wonderful Day, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
This week we’re reading around the theme of Mystical Cows!
Our picture book is Maharani the Cow, written by Christy Shoba Sudhir and illustrated by Nancy Raj – a bustling slice of life in India is interrupted by a cow in the road.
And our chapter book is The Beasts Of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson, in which there may well be ghosts but it is, in fact, all about the cows.
justonemorebook.com have a lovely audio interview with Eva Ibbotson from 2008 here in which she talks about her life and writing process here - http://justonemorebook.com/2008/01/21/interview-with-eva-ibbotson/
And here’s some great fan art from Clawstone! - https://www.deviantart.com/scarletcortez/art/Sunita-537823380
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
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Even the Trunchbull series 5 launches with a special on Shooting Stars and we've got some special announcements to kick off the new year.
A full transcript of this episode is now available to read on our blog here.
Our bookshop dot org shopfront is available here. Many thanks to Alice Slater of What Page Are You On? for doing the digging on the ethics of bookshop dot org and explaining it all over on her podcast, here.
Our picture book is the award-winning Look Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola, and our chapter book is the fantasy classic Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Nina got so excited about out first DWJ that she ranted about the book jacket for a solid 3 radio minutes.
Read more about Look Up! here
and watch the authors' reading and drawing tutorial here.
We mentioned the gorgeous illustrated Folio Society edition of Howl in the podcast - we thought you might like to see these lovely entries to their illustration competition.
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
It’s the closing episode for season 4 here at Even the Trunchbull and this week we’re doing retellings of A Christmas Carol.
Matt has read Charles Dickens’ original for the first time, and Nina has read a bunch of adaptations to tell Matt about, including:
The audiobook performance by Sir Patrick Stewart; Barrington Stoke’s dyslexia-friendly adaptation; Bah! Humbug! by Michael Rosen; Christmas Carol The Movie novelisation by Narinder Dhami; A World Full of Dickens Stories by Angela McAllister; Hanukkah, Shmanukkah! by Esme Raji Codell and LeUyen Pham, and The Miracle on Ebenezer Street by Catherine Doyle.
With honourable mentions of TV and film adaptations, and an old-man-baby-ghost with giant arms. What’s not to love?
There’s also talk of the inadvertent invention of modern-day Christmas by Dickens himself . . . hear more about that at The Allusionist Podcast here - https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/dickens-christmas
And we’ll be announcing the winner of our Christmas Giveaway!
Many thanks again to Armchair Books of Edinburgh for letting us have one of their tote bags as a stocking.
Merry Christmas everyone!
What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
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/