Even the Trunchbull
A kidlit review podcast focusing on one picture book and one chapter book each week. Hosted by Nina and Matt.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 13 - Family Recipes (Apple Cake and Baklava & Peeny Butter Fudge)
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…
00:27:23 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Halloween Special # 1 (Ghosts for Breakfast and The Jumbies)
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 Haitia…
00:29:09 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Series 3 Finale - Wordless Wonders
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 Ni…
00:28:38 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
Episode 12 - Dementia (Moominvalley in November and The Remember Balloons)
(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 Moo…
00:41:01 |
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Episode 11 - Dinosaurs (Dactyl Hill Squad & Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs)
(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 …
00:35:38 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Episode 10 - Peace and War (Private Peaceful and The General)
[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…
00:44:36 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Episode 9 - Back to School (Sumi's First Day of School Ever and The Last-Last Day of Summer)
(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…
00:38:10 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
Series 2 Finale - Matilda the Movie Watchalong
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…
01:38:55 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Episode 8 - Superpowers (What's my Superpower? and Matilda)
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 …
00:47:02 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
Episode 7 - I Am A Mole And I Live In A Hole (The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it was None of His Business and The Wind in the Willows)
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 giv…
00:39:17 |
Wed 01 Jul 2020
Episode 6 - Puppet Pals (Revenge of the Puppets and Pinocchio by Pinocchio)
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 doin…
00:37:23 |
Thu 25 Jun 2020
Episode 5 - Magical Sleep (A Book of Sleep and The Starlight Barking)
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…
00:48:41 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Special Mini Episode #1 and Book Giveaway!
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…
00:10:38 |
Thu 14 May 2020
Episode 4 - Loneliness (The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon and Beegu)
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…
00:35:22 |
Thu 07 May 2020
Episode 3 - Made-Up Languages (Du Iz Tak? and The Giants and the Joneses)
Nina and Matt read Carson Ellis' beautiful picture book Du Iz Tak? and Julia Donaldson's chapter book The Giants and the Joneses. We talk about the languages invented by the authors, what role they …
00:28:53 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Episode 2 - Grief (The Sad Book and Pog)
CN: bereavement, child death, parent death, sadness, depression, rage In this, our second ever episode, Nina and Matt go deep on Michael Rosen's lovely sad book and on a new favourite: Pog by Pádra…
00:33:43 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Episode 1 - Monsters (Young Werewolf and Not Now Bernard)
In this inaugural episode of Even the Trunchbull Nina and Matt read and discuss Cornelia Funke's Young Werewolf and Not Now Bernard by David McKee. What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative…
00:39:32 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Teaser trailer
Just a little note to introduce ourselves! Email us at [email protected] Twitter: @TrunchbullPod
00:00:46 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
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