/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

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De-lurking to say that I loved this episode so much, and hope to hear you talk about books again. XDDD I've liked some of Margaret Atwood's poetry, mostly because hers was some of the first poetry I read outside of school, though I've never tried her fiction. Now I'm curious.

Ugh, The Giver so much. Like what I told someone recently after reading the Hunger Games trilogy - if I wanted to read good dystopian YA, I'd read The Giver. It's one of those very, very resounding YA books that never leave you. (Or, you know, Ender's Game.)