/report: Children's Books

[mklutz]

Guys, we recorded for over an hour this week before scrapping the episode and re-recording on a different topic entirely. If we sound punchy at all it's because it was late in England and in Canada. (Oops?)

But! This week we cover a delightful range of children's and young adult books, which we hope you will enjoy, and we finish up with some book recs for you.

As per usual, you can click here to download the episode.

As usual the iTunes feed will be up later. Since it's a week about children's books we don't actually have any fic recs for you. Go read a book! You can follow us on twitter over here for other updates.


Due to request, a (hopefully mostly complete?) list of the books mentioned:

• Matilda
• A Promise is a Promise
• The Witches
• Little House on the Prairie series
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Secret World of Og
• Dragon Singer & Dragon Song
• Meg Cabot's Mediator/Princess Diaries/1-800-where-are-you books
• Jane Eyre
• 1984
• Catcher in the Rye
• The Last Unicorn
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Fountainhead
• Anything by Antonia Fraser (Frasier? Pru is asleep, so MK is guessing)
• The Egypt Game
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• The Giraffe, The Pelly, & Me
• These Happy Golden Years
• Catherine Called Birdie
• Gordon Korman's MacDonald Hall books
• Agatha Christie's Poirot; Agatha Christie's Marple
• The Paper Bag Princess
• Stardust of Yesterday
• Freedom's Landing
• Redwall (the series)
• The Hundred Secret Senses
• Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
• Robert Fagles translation of The Odyssey

Comments

[katkaminion]

Well. I read Marion Bradley Zimmer's Mists of Avalon when I was 12 or so. That's probably one of the first foreign writers I read.

[mklutz]

I read that, and it scarred me for life.

[katkaminion]

I... don't remember reading it actually.

All I can remember is, there was a passage about women having hair on their legs, and all I could think of was "oh cool no waxing".



And the I went back to Marvel.

[eponymousanon]

Hahaha I did the same thing. Literally, I remember reading those kinds of books in 5th grade or so and going "wait... that's not how sex really works, is it?"

[katkaminion]

Oh god, I think it probably mangled our minds win ways we can't even begin to imagine.

Well, the sex is... I asked my mom where babies come from when I was a lil' chick and she told me what sex was. By time I was 12, I was asking Ma about several positions. I was a very weird kid.

I remember asking my parents how they made me. Oh god usser icon definitely related.