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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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46:44

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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35:58

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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02:26

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

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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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36:25

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

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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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35:13

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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28:27

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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29:09

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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28:38

Series 3 Finale - Wordless Wonders

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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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35:38

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

Even the Trunchbull ·

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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44:36

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

Even the Trunchbull ·

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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