![]() "It's Catch Me If You Can only with an old woman and a weird blue creature."įull credit today to Lisa Straubinger for today's suggestion. ![]() Imagine if you did nine books and they were out of your reach after that BUT their loss allowed you to make The Napping House. ![]() It relates a tale about the British-to-American rights process like nothing you’ve seen before. Today’s post features a strawberry book that isn’t quite as strange as The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, but clocks in at a close second.īetsy admits that she utterly forgot that she interviewed Don and Audrey Wood about this book a mere TWO years ago! In her defense, 2020 was a bit of a lost-COVID year. We promised you additional strawberries and additional strawberries you shall have! We start off with a bang on the podcast this week with a fun quiz: Who would you cast in the live action version of three different picture books? Then, we go back to this great work of Don and Audrey Wood, last seen on this podcast in episodes about The Napping House and King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub. Kate Recommends: The Great British Baking Show Game - īetsy Recommends: That she's on TikTok now! the full Show Notes please visit: This may explain a lot about how anuses appear in European picture books but seemingly disappear when the books are published here in the States: Hat tip to Lark for bringing us to the Independent article, Animal discovered with ‘transient anus’ that only appears when it is needed. Or why Olivia is like Moira Rose/Meg White! Things like why, precisely, the cover image was significantly changed from its interior original. Today's book includes one of our favorite exchanges between a student and a teacher in the picture book form, and is filled with small details you may have missed back in the day when the book was first published. Olivia, by some unexpected roll of the dice, apparently passes muster. Recall, if you will, that Kate has a tendency to dislike bratty heroines. The first time Betsy introduced Kate to Olivia shje was shocked by how much Kate liked the little pig. Having failed to secure a THIRD strawberry-related picture book this week (not for lack of trying) we turn to a heroine we've only seen once before in our previous Olivia episode. Thanks to Amy Rooks for the link: įor the full Show Notes please visit: (opens in a new tab) An article that was very strange, since it sure sounded from the outset like it was about the scarier elements of the title. Here is Don't Be Afraid of Robert Munsch's Love You Forever. Interested in the latest Henry Cole picture book that features two dads? Then check out his wordless 2022 title, Forever Home: A Dog and Boy Love Story: Īnd just for fun, check out this recent LeVar Burton video from The Daily Show that features this beloved title: You can check out one of those posts here: Īnd, once again, Kate recommends Queer Ducks by Eliot Schrefer, which makes it very clear that this is hardly uncommon in the animal world: There's a lot of good history information about the book there, so feel free to check it out: īetsy loved the image of the statues at the entrance to the Central Park Zoo because she regularly collects children's literature statues from around America. We talk Happy Feet, whether or not Tango was actually named after Tango & Cash ("if she'd been a boy, he totally would have named her Cash"), and why baby penguins that break the 4th wall are unspeakably awesome.īetsy talks about this on the show, but in April of 2022 she conducted an interview with the authors of this book in a piece called And Tango Gets Banned Again? Book Banning Perspectives from Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson. So it's clearly in the cultural zeitgeist. Interestingly, even though Kate hadn't seen the book before, she took one look at it and said it was "the gay penguins book". As such, we felt like consideration of this, "the granddaddy of the book banned", was long overdue. Banned Books Week may have happened last week, but sadly that doesn't mean that the nationwide scourge of banning has ended.
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