In the Reading Corner
In the Reading Corner is created by Just Imagine for anyone interested in children's books and reading. It is hosted by Nikki Gamble, author of Exploring Children's Literature and co-author of Guiding Readers. Listening to this podcast, you will learn about the latest children's books, learn more about the creative processes of writing and illustrating, discover different viewpoints about topical issues and more. Whether you are a teacher, librarian, parent, bookseller, publisher, writer or illustrator, this podcast is made with love for you.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
A M Dassu - a Syrian story
A M Dassu joined Nikki Gamble In The Reading Corner to talk about her novel Boy Everywhere and the experience of Syrian families seeking refuge.
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Matt Goodfellow - Bright Bursts of Colour
In this interview, Matt Goodfellow discusses the emotional range and childhood influences in his poetry collection Bright Bursts of Colour.
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Ross Montgomery - The Midnight Guardians
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Sally Nicholls talks about The Silent Stars Go By
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Catherine Bruton - Dickens for the 21st Century
Catherine Bruton explains why she's reworked Dickens for the 21st century... with some clever twists to keep us enthralled.
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Catherine Fisher - Clockwork Crows and Midnight Swans
Catherine Fisher talks about the final book in her Clockwork Crow series for 'middle grade' or junior readers. The Midnight SwanWith an invisible girl, a parliament of owls and a pen that writes by i…
Manjeet Mann - Run Rebel
Manjeet Mann talks to Nikki Gamble about her Young Adult verse novel Run Rebel. In this story, Manjeet explores domestic violence, female empowerment and freedom.
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Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett -challenging gendered fairy tales
Nikki Gamble talks to Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett about their approach to gender-swapping in traditional fairy stories.
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Benjamin Zephaniah - Windrush Child
Nikki Gamble talks to Benjamin Zephaniah about his novel Windrush Child. Zephaniah explains the importance of authenticity in historical accounts and why it is the voices and stories of ordinary peop…
David Long - the history of machines or human stories?
Nikki Gamble talks to David Long about The World's Most Magnificent Machines and some personal passions. It's all about the human stories, not the machines.
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Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors
An interview with Alex Wheatle about his novel, Cane Warriors. In this fascinating podcast, Alex talks about Jamaican history and the creative decisions he made when writing the book. This interview …
Christopher Lloyd - why publish a print based encyclopedia in the digital age?
Christopher Lloyd talks to Nikki Gamble about why a print-based encyclopedia is not an anachronism in the digital age.
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Robin Scott-Elliot - The Acrobats of Agra
Robin Scott-Elliot talks to Nikki Gamble about the personal story that set him on the path to writing The Acrobats of Agra.Agra 1857, the Indian rebellion. Three children are trying to make their way…
Amy Wilson - frost, faeries and missing fathers
Amy Wilson talks about frost, faeries and missing fathers and her novel Owl and the Lost Boy,
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Finbar Hawkins - Witch
Finbar Hawkins talks about a personal fascination with the Pendle witch trials, and his debut novel, Witch. Set in the 17th century Witch is a story about the power of women, witchcraft, fury, reveng…
Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher - a perfect partnership
Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher talk about their creative partnership and their latest book, The New Girl, published by Graffeg.
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Tom Palmer - After the War
Tom Palmer talks about the real-life story of a group of Jewish boys that were given refuge in the village of Ambleside in the Lake District, following their liberation from Auschwitz at the end of t…
Tania Unsworth - entranced by tigers
Tania Unsworth talks about the magic of India, championing Kiping's Shere Khan and her fabulous new novel The Time Traveller and the Tiger. Entrancing storytelling.
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Dom Conlon speaking of hares and the moon
Dom Conlon talks to Nikki Gamble about hares, the moon, kennings, writing poetry and two of his recent books.
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Eve McDonnell - mudlarking leads to Elsetime
Eve talks to Nikki Gamble about her creative life, the connections between painting and writing, mud larking and her debut novel, Elsetime.
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