/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

[jayj530]

I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this episode of /report...not that I haven't enjoyed all the previous episodes, but I especially enjoyed this one. Mostly because I've had non-fandom friends assume that because I read/write fanfiction I'm less interested in "real" books and that is just not the case. So it was really great hearing you two discuss "real" books and make some excellent points about them.

Also, mklutz, don't listent to Pru, the Pern books are awesome and every child should read them. When I was 10, I convinced my entire 5th grade class to read Dragonsong and Dragonsinger and I will never regret that life choice.