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Even the Trunchbull

A kidlit review podcast focusing on one picture book and one chapter book each week. Hosted by Nina and Matt.

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Episode 34 - Jolly Hockey Sticks, it’s the boarding...

Even the Trunchbull ·

2022/09/01

This week we’re doing something a little different for our back to school episode, and digging in to a run down of the ins and outs of boarding schools in kidlit. Nina and Matt have each brought a few books featuring boarding school set ups along to discuss. They are: The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Boy by Roald Dahl Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones Knock Three Times by Cressida Cowell The audiobook Matt remembers

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Episode 33 - Soon May The Wellerman Come (Nightbirds...

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2022/08/04

This week we’re reading books about 19th century whaling. Our picture book is ‘Peggony-Po’ by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, and our chapter book is ‘Nightbirds on Nantucket’ by Joan Aiken We have a guest this episode! Ali Baker is the founder and host of Fantasty Book Swap podcast, which you can check out here - https://alibaker68.podbean.com/ . . . Look out for us on an episode fairly soon! The podcast ‘Research Hole’ has an excellent episode on the real story behind Moby Dick, which

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Episode 32 - The Wrong Side of The Door (Alfie Gets...

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2022/07/07

This month our chapter book is Coraline by Neil Gaiman and our picture book is Alfie Gets in First by Shirley Hughes, which both involve being stuck on the wrong side of a door. We have a special guest this month too! Simon Mole is an award-winning poet, theatre maker and children’s author. Simon joins us to talk about Alfie Gets in First, as well as his new book, I Love My Cat, which we love (illustrated by Sam Usher). You can get it here from Quarto Books -

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Episode 31 - Hold On To Your Hats (A Hat Full of Sky...

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2022/06/02

Content note: our chapter book touches on bullying, mortality and euthanasia. In discussing it, we also talk about dementia, and how Terry Pratchett dealt with it in his books for children. This is an episode all about magical, virtual, invisible hats as worn by a pair of powerful girls. And for the first time, we have a guest host! Many thanks to Dave Pickering for stepping into Matt's wonderful shoes. Our chapter book is A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett. It is the second of the Tiffany

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Episode 30 - The Fairytale Multiverse (Each Peach...

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2022/05/05

This week we’re joined by special guest Robert Valentine, to talk about one of his favourite kidlit picture books, Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg – a much loved classic which sees several fairytale characters combine in one world. That is followed by our chapter book, Rumaysa: A Fairytale by Radiya Hafiza, which retells three traditional fairytales in which the main characters are young Muslim girls, bringing representation and fresh new perspectives to old stories. Links: The

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Episode 29 - TEETH! (Dave and the Tooth Fairy and...

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2022/04/07

CN: very mild gore about losing baby teeth, and some dicussion that might spoil some tooth fairy magic It's another episode about a chilhood milestone: losing your baby teeth! Matt and Nina chat a bit about their personal experiences, explore some of the history of cultural practices associated with milk teeth, and dig into the history of tooth fairies. The nonfiction picture book Nina mentions is Throw Your Tooth on the Roof. Our picture book is the classic Dave and the Tooth Fairy, by Verna

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Episode 28 - Mermaids! (The Little Mermaid and The...

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2022/03/03

Welcome, listener, to this, our longest ever episode! EDITORS NOTE: the original version of this episode had a big editing mistake in it, which had Matt saying "able-bodied people can't write disabled characters" when what they actually said was "I don't think able-bodied people can't write disabled characters". A pretty big mistake since it reverses the meaning! The currently available episode has been corrected. Apologies to Matt for making them say the opposite of what they mean. First we

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Episode 27 - Time (Clocks and More Clocks and Momo)

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2022/02/03

This month on Even the Trunchbull, we have a listener recommendation! Namely, Momo by Michael Ende (well known as the author of The Never Ending Story) as our chapter book, on a theme of ‘Time’ – so that’s what we’ve gone with! Momo is part celebration of community and part prescient cautionary tale about the dangers of the busy modern world. Momo and a magic tortoise called Cassiopeia must rescue the city from the faceless men in grey, who are determined to steal everyone’s time. That’s

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Episode 26 - Winter Wheelies (I Love My Bike and...

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2022/01/13

Winter Wheelies Shownotes: Happy New Year! Just after Christmas, there’ll be lots of us out on new bikes, so this episode is celebrating bicycles! Our picture book is I Love My Bike by Simon Mole, illustrated by Sam Usher - a rip-roaring fast-paced adventure, beating out a bouncy rhythm and capturing the excitement of riding a bike for the first time And our chapter book is Bicycling to the Moon by Timo Parvela, illustrated by Virpi Talvitie - a classic of Finnish kidlit which introduces us to

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Episode 25 - Chrimbo Kitties and Festive Familiars...

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2021/12/23

Our books for this final episode of Even The Trunchbull for 2021 are loosely linked around pets at Christmas! The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser features Paganini the rabbit, Franz the dog and George Washington the cat. But it's mainly about the five human Vanderbeeker children and their quest to convince their Scrooge-like landlord to allow their family to stay in their lovely apartment. Their tactics run the range from naughty to nice, as is seasonally appropriate. This is a

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Concerning Carrots... A Christmas bonus episode!

Even the Trunchbull ·

2021/12/19

The festive season is in full swing, the Christmas TV ads have all aired, and by far the most popular this year is A Christmas Carrot, from Aldi! And they even brought out a picture book. In classic Even The Trunchbull style, we have taken it upon ourselves to review this new take on Charles Dickens's classic, and let us tell you, if nothing else, this book is good fun if you enjoy a pun. A Christmas Carrot is written by Stephanie Moss and illustrated by Hannah Wood. You won't be able to find it

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Episode 24 - Hard Hungry Winters (Yokki and the Parno...

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2021/12/02

This week our picture book is Yokki and the Parno Gry by Katharine Quarmby and Ricard O’Neill – a story about a young boy in a Romani Traveller family, and the power of stories themselves And our chapter book this week is The Famine Secret by Cora Harrison. Part of the Drumshee Timeline series, this story takes us via four young siblings into the hardships of the Irish Famine of 1845 Links: For Yokki and the Parno Gry: There’s a lovely video of Richard O’Neill reading Yokki and the Parno

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Episode 23 - Rivers in Brazil with Pádraig Kenny...

Even the Trunchbull ·

2021/11/11

This week we’re joined by special guest Pádraig Kenny, to talk about one of his favourite kidlit chapter books, Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. That is followed by our picture book, Along The River by Vanina Starkoff, with English translation by Jane Springer Articles of Note: There is an interesting article about the representation of Indigenous people in Peter Pan and more broadly in children's lit

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A little delay... See you back here next week!

Even the Trunchbull ·

2021/11/04

Just a note to let you know that due to life and work stuff going on, this month's episode about rivers in Brazil is going to be delayed by a week. We hope it'll be worth the wait, and thank you for bearing with us! Nina and Matt

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Episode 22 - Haunted Houses (Ghosts in the House! and...

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2021/10/07

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

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Episode 21 - We Don‘t Need No Education (The Year I...

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2021/09/02

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

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Series 6 and beyond! A little announcement

Even the Trunchbull ·

2021/08/12

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

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Series 5 Finale - Audiobooks Special

Even the Trunchbull ·

2021/03/25

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

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Episode 20 - Not Quite Nuclear (Burglar Bill and Wilde)

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2021/03/11

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 -

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Episode 19 - Don't Mess With The Pasta Magic! (Strega...

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2021/03/04

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

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