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Kate requested a Thanksgiving picture book classic. In the course of things, Kate creates a shocking backstory worthy of V.C. Andrews while I deep dive into Agatha Christie territory and start speculating about how the incipient murder would take place.
In this episode, listen as I crow over the importance of books where you can bounce a small child on your knee while making "chugga-chugga" noises while Kate imitates the call of the zebra.
Kate requested a book that was about "cute cats and slugs". And for the first time ever, that is a request I could accommodate. The end result is a deep dive into an Australian import classic.
On today's podcast spend an inordinate amount of time saying "Lord Cucuface", discuss "the happiness of a father of a husband", and tackle why the ending of this book bugs me in the same way that the ending of the movie of The Wizard of Oz does.
"Well, THAT didn't end how I thought it would!" I save the spookiest book for last this month, and I think I knocked it out of the park. What better than to end the month on a book that involves honest-to-goodness MURDER?
Every year I have to come up with spooky classic picture books, and today's was a recommendation from one of our fans (that would be our mom). It's less spooky than it is autumnal, but that's okay.
When I heard that Newbery Honor winner Christian McKay Heidicker considered Spooky Old Tree a seminal text, I not only knew what our next book was going to be, I knew exactly who should be our next guest!
It's October so that means spooky season has officially begun! I introduce Kate to one of my favorite eerie classics. It's pure unfiltered Steven Kellogg. Let's see what she makes of him.
"Some days you're the girl in the soup and some days you're the chicken under the chair." Special guest Erica S. Perl joins us this Yom Kippur to discuss what should be considered the official picture book of 2020.
This week, Kate delves real deep into the marital status of dear Mr. and Mrs. Bird here (including Mr. Bird's "extracurricular activities", if you get my gist). We discuss how this is like a "very small version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds" (their reign of terror is swift and tiny). We wonder about color layering, and we get to sing the "Toldja So" song.