Mrs M and a friend are working on creating a podcast about children’s books. Mrs M has a Masters in Children’s Literature and a lifelong interest in children’s books, and her friend is a well known writer of and broadcaster about children’s books in New Zealand. They pick two or three books and discuss them at length and in detail, looking at every aspect from the story to the illustrations and everything else. It’s very engaging because it just sounds like them sitting round the kitchen table. A bit like our heroes David and Mark. They’ve done several trial episodes and are almost ready to unleash it on the world except they don’t have a title.
The current working title is “A Wrinkle In Time”. For those like me who don’t get it, it’s the title of a 1963 iconic children’s book. As someone has pointed out, if you’re looking for a podcast about children’s books then you’ll get it. Like the Beatles podcast called Things We Said Today.
Anyway if anyone has any brilliant ideas please share them here…
I don’t know if kiwi children had the “Listen with Mother” radio programme back in the old days. It was a children’s story read every day by a posh-sounding lady. Every story started with the words:
Are you sitting comfortably?
Otherwise – a bit surreal but NZ-related:
Spoon Lightning
Shark Nose Hospital
Bare Bottom Land
Milk and Eggs
Just top-of-mind references to Spike Milligan’s Badjelly the Witch. I believe Radio NZ played it for many years and theatre productions of the book are still popular now in NZ – largely due to parents and grandparents remembering the radio broadcasts.
Are You Sitting Comfortably? as the title?
Does it for me…
How about ‘We’re Going On A Book Hunt’, echoing Michael Rosen’s famous ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt’
@Beezer That’s a good one!
Greymalkin’s Musings
Welcome to the bumble. We’ve got fun and names.
*chapeau*
Chapter & Verse
The Magic Of Storytime
Turning Pages
Cover To Cover
Tall Tales For Tiny Tots
Fun With Fables
Live From Donaldson’s Dairy.
Hairy McClairy! I must read that again.
They are simply the best kids books ever.
Bonus is that my dog is a Hairy McClary lookalike.
My daughter loved the Kipper the Dog stories by Mick Inkpen
A line we still quote is ‘And they all went home for a glass of juice and a biscuit’ Which seemed to her a very good end to a story.
The Logpile House