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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 18 - Mystical Cows (The Beasts of Clawstone...

Even the Trunchbull ·

2021/02/25

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

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Episode 17 - Shooting Stars (Look Up! and Howl's...

Even the Trunchbull ·

2021/02/18

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

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Series 4 Finale: A Christmas Carol retold for children

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2020/12/17

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;

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Episode 16 - Christmas! (Happy Christmas Gemma and I...

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2020/12/10

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

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Episode 15 - Dragons and Gender (The Worst Princess...

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2020/12/03

Join Nina and Matt as we dive into a couple of topics that go hand in hand: dragons and gender! We talk about why stories about dragons, princesses and knights are a great place to play with gender roles, gay dragons, and Matt pitches an episode about Howl's Moving Castle (coming in series 5!) Our picture book in The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie Our chapter book is Digory the Dragon Slayer by Angela McAllister Christmas giveaway update: we've added Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi to

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Episode 14 - Fairytale Retellings (Pattan's Pumpkin...

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2020/11/26

Join Matt and Nina this week for a discussion of fairytales and folk tales! We talk about flood myths in regard to Chitra Soundar and Frané Lessac's "Pattan's Pumpkin". See Ms Soundar's writing about how Pattan's Pumpkin came about here: https://www.wordsandpics.org/2016/09/retelling-folktales-Chitra-Soundar.html http://www.chitrasoundar.com/pyramids-of-caste-and-the-need-for-inclusivity/ And in the second half we discuss a Pratchett classic that we both loved as teenagers: the Amazing Maurice

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Episode 13 - Family Recipes (Apple Cake and Baklava &...

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2020/11/19

We're launching series 4 with two books featuring family recipes! Apple cake and Baklava by Kathrin Rohmann and translated into English by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is the story of the friendship between a Syrian refugee and a white German boy in her class, and their quest to recover a very precious walnut. Peeny Butter Fudge is about the sweet and outrageous delights of spending a day with your Nana, and it's a gorgeous picture book written in verse by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison. We're also

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Halloween Special # 1 (Ghosts for Breakfast and The...

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2020/10/29

Surprise! It’s a Halloween Special! We couldn’t pass up this time of year without bringing you two spooky stories. Our chapter book is The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste, a modern retelling of Haitian fairytale folklore about things that go bump in the night on a semi-fictional Caribbean island – with some genuinely scary moments. Our picture book is Ghosts for Breakfast by Stanley Todd Terasaki and illustrated by Shelly Shinjo – Mr. Omi, Mr. Omaye and Mr. Ono have seen ghosts in Farmer Tanaka’s

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Series 3 Finale - Wordless Wonders

Even the Trunchbull ·

2020/10/01

For our final episode of the season, we’re breaking format to bring you an episode on wordless picture books! Nina and Matt have picked three books each to discuss, and the six books are: Why? by Nikolai Popov Here I Am by Patti Kim and Sonia Sanchez Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle Found. by Jeff Newman and Larry Day The Only Child by Guojing (special thanks to the World Kidlit Blog for this recommendation) And much loved classic, The Snowman by Raymond Briggs Hope you enjoy and see you

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Episode 12 - Dementia (Moominvalley in November and...

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2020/09/24

(CN: Discussion of dementia and memory loss) This week we’re reading books linked by themes of dementia and memory. Our chapter book is Moominvalley in November, by Tove Jansson, the last in the Moomins series, which sees various characters returning to Moominvalley, trying to remember and forget in turn, in the absence of the Moomin family Our picture book is The Remember Balloons by Jessie Oliveros, illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte, which draws a beautifully simple metaphor for dementia. We have

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Episode 11 - Dinosaurs (Dactyl Hill Squad &...

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2020/09/17

(CN: Discussion of anti-black racism, violence, slavery and guns during the chapter book section. If you want to skip ahead to our picture book section, start at 27 minutes) This week we’re reading books that feature dinosaurs! Our chapter book is Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older, which blends historical fiction and fantasy as we follow the adventures a gang of kids from the Coloured Orphan Asylum in 1863 New York, but in a world inhabited by both people and dinosaurs. Our picture book is

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Episode 10 - Peace and War (Private Peaceful and The...

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2020/09/10

[CN: war, death, bombs, destruction, trench warfare] This week we're reading books about war, and about building peace. Our chapter book is Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, beloved by Matt and Nina since they were 11, and the General by Janet Charters, which we'd never read before, and is a fascinating look at 1960s pacifism and at Michael Foreman's earliest published illustrations. There's a lot of further reading for those of you that want it this week. Our resident history nerd Matt

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Episode 9 - Back to School (Sumi's First Day of...

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2020/09/03

(CN: discussion of an Asian child's experience of racism in school during the section about the picture book) We're back in time for the new school year, our pencils are sharpened and our backpacks are heavy with a new season's books! Our picture book this week is Sumi's First Day of School Ever by Soyung Pak and illustrated by Joung Un Kim. We talk about how scary it can be to start a new school, especially in a new country, and how drawing can be a bridge between people even in the absence of a

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Series 2 Finale - Matilda the Movie Watchalong

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2020/07/16

To wrap up a series where we've been talking about book to film adaptations made in 1996, we're watching Matilda and chatting along. There's some little easter eggs pointed out by Nina, and a couple of last ditch attempts by Matt to get us to watch The Wind in the Willows. ETTB will be back in September, so enjoy the rest of your summer! Love from Nina and Matt What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of

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Episode 8 - Superpowers (What's my Superpower? and...

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2020/07/09

To wrap this series up, we're reading about little girls with superpowers! See Aviaq Johnston talking about writing and identity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29sFN6ESUAw And if you liked the sound of the Trunchbull's chocolate cake, EmmyMadeInJapan recreated it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hy8934KlKY Chech out that episode of Next Door Villain about Miss Trunchbull: https://nextdoorvillain.libsyn.com/miss-trunchbull What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons

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Episode 7 - I Am A Mole And I Live In A Hole (The...

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2020/07/01

It's taken us a series and a half, but we've got our first poo book! Nina is keener on this German cracker than Matt is. We talk about the translation, about the illustrations, and the choice to give some animals glasses but none of them trousers. Then there's book versus adaptation chat, a lot of class chat, a look at the link between nature writing and small-c conservatism, a close read of our favourite chapters and, surprisingly, very little mention of Mister Toad. What A Wonderful Day is

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Episode 6 - Puppet Pals (Revenge of the Puppets and...

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2020/06/25

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 a dance: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WuohEEPQJZ0 Here's that stop motion animation by Lesley-Ann Rose that Matt was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPBPa_iVn8&t=1s And Karadi Tales has lots of free stuff up for kids in lockdown right now:

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Episode 5 - Magical Sleep (A Book of Sleep and The...

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2020/06/18

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 the app version of Il Sung Na's A Book of Sleep here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oiTYP9B7iw&app=desktop Starlight Barking should be in all good libraries, but if it's not, get yourself a second hand copy from your favourite bookshop. What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons

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Special Mini Episode #1 and Book Giveaway!

Even the Trunchbull ·

2020/05/14

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 win all the titles we talk about in this episode! For reference, the books are: Father Bear Comes Home by Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr The Day of the Dreader by Cressida Cowell The thing that bothered Farmer Brown by Teri Sloat Melvin’s Cold Feet by

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Episode 4 - Loneliness (The Boy Who Climbed into the...

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2020/05/07

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 characters, free will and the space/time continuum. And then we talk about Beegu, with special focus on alien hieroglyphics, the colour yellow and what big ears are for. We did some extra research around The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon because Matt loved it so much, and we thought we'd share what we

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