Episode · The Book Review · 2017-08-25
Books mentioned on The Joys of Children’s Literature
Bruce Handy recommended Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham with 12 Silly Sounds! by Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman, and Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary, and discussed Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak, I Am a Bunny by Richard Scarry, and Snow by P.D. Eastman. Pamela Paul recommended Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Wise Brown and Wild things by Bruce Handy, and discussed In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak and The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and others. Parul Sehgal discussed Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgård, Happy Land: The Spellbinding New Novel from the Bestselling Author of Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy. Jennifer Schuessler recommended Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère, and discussed Class trip by Emmanuel Carrère. John Williams recommended But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Where the wild things are
Maurice Sendak's Where the wild things are is a beloved children's picture book that follows a young boy named Max on an imaginative journey to a land of fantastical creatures before returning safely to his bedroom.
Discussed“it was when the the film of Where the Wild Things was was coming out and it really made me reflect on that book”
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In the Night Kitchen
Discussed“you know where do you stand on the In The Night Kitchen versus Where the Wild Things Are because I find that people tend to fall into”
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Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown is a beloved, timeless children's picture book that follows a young bunny bidding a gentle goodnight to every object in the great green room.
Recommended“so for me good night moon is one of those books but also in The Night”
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Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham with 12 Silly Sounds!
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Recommended“I could read again and again and I think it's probably maybe literally the only children's book I could read again and again and never get sick of was was green eggs and ham”
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Green Eggs and Ham
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.
Recommended“I could read again and again and I think it's probably maybe literally the only children's book I could read again and again and never get sick of was was green eggs and ham”
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Go, Dog. Go!
Go, Dog.
Recommended“I think one book that I don't talk about much I think I I mentioned in passing in this book but that I did love as as a kid and I still love as an adult and I enjoyed reading to my kids was go Dog go”
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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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Snow
Discussed“and actually petd Eastman did this too with the book snow and with the companion volume summer which is that both of them”
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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 beloved middle-grade children's novel that captures the trials, tribulations, and humorous misunderstandings of starting kindergarten through the eyes of the irrepressible Ramona Quimby.
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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Happy Land: The Spellbinding New Novel from the Bestselling Author of Take My Hand
Discussed“so tell us what you've reviewed so far I reviewed danzi senna's book new people the novel and Carlo vard's”
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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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Lives Other Than My Own
Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère is a deeply reflective non-fiction work that explores profound themes of grief, human connection, mortality, and resilience in the wake of tragedy.
Recommended“first I have been reading the French novelist Emanuel carer that he's this guy I heard about him on this podcast he's a French novelist writer and I've been reading his book lives other than my own”
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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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (9) — 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”
“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”