Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on The Joys of Children’s Literature
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Where the wild things are
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is a celebrated children's picture book depicting a young boy named Max who sails to a fantastical land of wild creatures after being sent to his room without supper.
Discussed“being presented somebody gave us Where the Wild Things Are and reading it as an adult suddenly it just unfolded to me”
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In the Night Kitchen
Discussed“Kitchen get a little bored during Where the Wild Things Are but in The Night Kitchen maybe because it's so nonsensical”
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Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition
Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Wise Brown is a classic bedtime picture book featuring a little bunny bidding goodnight to everything in the great green room.
Discussed“and it actually you know reading that book to my kids and and other people have told me this too it actually kind of sparked”
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Green Eggs and Ham
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.
Recommended“okay I mean the one that stands out would be green eggs and ham only in the sense as a book I never got sick of reading”
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Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham with 12 Silly Sounds!
Dr.
Recommended“okay I mean the one that stands out would be green eggs and ham only in the sense as a book I never got sick of reading”
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I Am a Bunny
Discussed“I a bunny oh I don't know that one oh Richard scary did this book I am a bunny”
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The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is a groundbreaking children's picture book that follows a young boy named Peter as he explores his neighborhood after a fresh snowfall.
Discussed“also yeah makes me think of the snowy day too there's some great snowballs”
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Ramona the Pest
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary is a classic children's novel following the energetic and strong-willed Ramona Quimby as she navigates the trials and tribulations of starting kindergarten.
Recommended“probably my favorite my favorite sort of middle-grade book would be Ramon of the past which I just to me is just an amazing Masterpiece”
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Wild things
Wild things by Bruce Handy is a thoughtful cultural and literary study that explores the enduring magic, psychological depth, and artistic brilliance of classic children's literature.
Recommended“all right grown-ups go back and read these books and read Bruce's book it's called wild things the joy of reading children's literature as an adult by Bruce handy”
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Autumn
Discussed“so tell us what you've reviewed so far I reviewed danzi senna's book new people the novel and Carlo vard's I think this is the seventh or eighth book Autumn”
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is Arundhati Roy's highly anticipated second novel, which arrived two decades after her celebrated debut, The God of Small Things.
Discussed“but I recently had the chance to sort of write at length about arti Roy's new novel the ministry of utmost happiness”
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Class trip
Discussed“so Barry again has sent me another one of his books and the one that I'm reading right now is class trip which is a short novel”
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But Beautiful
But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer is a richly imagined, critically acclaimed book about jazz that blends biography, fiction, and impressionistic criticism to capture the lives and music of legendary jazz icons.
Recommended“but what I read this week in addition to He Who Shall Not Be Named a thousandth time is Jeff Dyer's book but beautiful which is subtitled appropriately enough a book about jazz”
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Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I mean the one that stands out would be green eggs and ham only in the sense of a book”
“I mean the one that stands out would be green eggs and ham only in the sense of a book”
“Bruce handy will be here to talk about his new book Wild Things the joy of reading children's literature as an adult”
“or Lucy is in the line of the witch in The Wardrobe she's yeah they're playing hide-and-seek”
“or Lucy is in the line of the witch in The Wardrobe she's yeah they're playing hide-and-seek”
“I I read Where the Wild Things Are but as an adult one of the ways that I think about children's books”
“the subtitle of your book is the joy of reading children's literature as an adult the joy and and the sadness”
“what other books do you write about in wild things and and how did you make the decisions”
“you know for a book with the joy of reading children's literature as an adult as a subtitle we're ending on a very melancholy note”
“he left the hotel and walked to a cinema Where She Wore a Yellow Ribbon was playing”