Episodes

Episode Date Title
1 1 January 2022 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
2 17 January 2022 What is a Cinderella story?
3 24 January 2022 Audiobook: Cindy Feller: An Old West Fairy Tale by T.Q. Townsend and Chloë Townsend
4 31 January 2022 Choosing Good Baby Books
5 14 February 2022 Amy March and the Pickled Limes
6 21 February 2022 Recipes from Little Women
7 1 March 2022 How the Brothers Grimm Saved Folk Culture
8 1 March 2022 “Ricky the Racer” by E. Harlow Mortensen, retold by T.Q. Townsend
9 7 March 2022 The Crow and The Snake – A Ukrainian Folk Tale, retold by T.Q. Townsend
10 14 March 2022 The Crow and The Snake – A Modern Parable
11 21 March 2022 Dialect in the Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett
12 28 March 2022 Speaking English with Little Lord Fauntleroy
13 4 April 2022 Speaking Like A Little Princess
14 11 April 2022 Audiobook: “Tiger Takes Me for a Walk”
15 18 April 2022 Audiobook: “Tiger Gives the Babies a Bath”
16 25 April 2022 Code Switching in The Secret Garden
17 29 April 2022 Rocky: A Cinderella Story
18 2 May 2022 Speaking Yorkshire in The Secret Garden
19 9 May 2022 Tricky Topics: Alcohol
20 16 May 2022 Tricky Topics: Disease
21 23 May 2022 Tricky Topics: Death
22 30 May 2022 Halo: Modern Mythology
23 6 June 2022 Island of the Blue Dolphins: Lost But Not Forgotten
24 13 June 2022 Island of the Blue Dolphins: Survival and Forgiveness
25 20 June 2022 Island of the Blue Dolphins: Feminism and Environmentalism
26 27 June 2022 Movie Night: Top 5 Children’s Book Adaptations
27 4 July 2022 The Music of The Trumpet of the Swan
28 11 July 2022 Disability in The Trumpet of the Swan
29 18 July 2022 A French Lesson with The Fables of La Fontaine
30 25 July 2022 A Cinderella Story from Ancient China
31 1 August 2022 Much Ado About Teen Drama
32 8 August 2022 Audiobook: Rune Dances
33 15 August 2022 Is The Yorkshire Speech in The Secret Garden Accurate?
34 22 August 2022 Ethics and Physics in “The Crow and The Pitcher”
35 29 August 2022 The Monster at the End of the Best Book Ever
36 5 September 2022 Elven Songs in The Hobbit
37 12 September 2022 Dwarven Songs in The Hobbit
38 19 September 2022 Hobbit, Human, and Goblin Songs in The Hobbit
39 26 September 2022 The Sneetches
40 3 October 2022 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
41 10 October 2022 Charlotte’s Web
42 17 October 2022 Overrated Children’s Books
43 24 October 2022 Best Audiobook Performances
44 31 October 2022 Who Was Aesop?
45 7 November 2022 Androcles
46 14 November 2022 The Mythology of Watership Down
47 21 November 2022 Crochet in Esperanza Rising
48 28 November 2022 Matilda’s Library
49 5 December 2022 The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
50 12 December Fiftieth Episode Mailbag
51 23 December 2022 How the Grinch Stole Christmas
52 2 January 2023 How to Tell a Bedtime Story
53 9 January 2023 The Midnight Panther by Poonam Mistry
54 16 January 2023 Matilda: An Adaptation of an Adaptation
55 23 January 2023 The Italian Cinderella
56 30 January 2023 Hanako Muraoka
57 6 February 2023 Anne of Green Gables is Big in Japan
58 13 February 2023 Interview with Jonathan Emmett
59 20 February 2023 Censoring Roald Dahl
60 27 February 2023 The Nightingale
61 27 February 2023 Audiobook: “The Nightingale” by Hans Christian Andersen
62 6 March 2023 Little Lord Fauntleroy Will See You in Court
63 13 March 2023 Mists of Iga by Kyle Mortensen
64 20 March 2023 Two Grimm Cinderellas
65 20 March 2023 Audiobook: Aschenputtel (1812 First Edition)
66 20 March 2023 Audiobook: Aschenputtel (1819 Second Edition)
67 27 March 2023 Interview with Tom Phillips
68 3 April 2023 The Secret Garden Was Right About Robins
69 10 April 2023 The Princess in Black
70 17 April 2023 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
71 24 April 2023 Sue Townsend
72 1 May 2023 A Biology Lesson with The Trumpet of the Swan
73 8 May 2023 An Interview with Rachel Greaves
74 15 May 2023 The Jewish Roots of Holes
75 22 May 2023 Go, Dog, Go!
76 29 May 2023 Animal Farm
77 5 June 2023 Pippi Longstocking
78 12 June 2023 Spring Writing Challenge Party
79 19 June 2023 A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Kids
80 26 June 2023 Interview with Bali Rai
81 3 July 2023 Paul Bunyan
82 10 July 2023 Lily Alone
83 17 July 2023 Interview with Ben Dixon
84 23 July 2023 “Casey at the Bat”
85 31 July 2023 The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers
86 7 August 2023 The Saga of Pecos Bill
87 14 August 2023 Cendrillon by Charles Perrault
88 21 August 2023 A Defense of Dick and Jane
89 28 August 2023 Rob Childs
90 4 September 2023 Sense and Sensibility and Teenagers
91 11 September 2023 Roald Dahl Day
92 18 September 2023 Tom Sawyer and Robin Hood
93 25 September 2023 Emily Owen
94 2 October 2023 Why I Love Ramona Quimby
95 9 October 2023 The Tortoise and The Hare and Hubris
96 16 October 2023 Bambi by Felix Salten
97 23 October 2023 Yanagita Kunio
98 31 October 2023 Interview with Chloë Townsend
99 6 November 2023 Where the Wild Things Are turns 60
100 13 November 2023 100th Episode Mailbag
101 20 November 2023 Dork Diaries
102 27 November 2023 Interview with Anne Fine
103 4 December 2023 I Must Stop this Grinchmas from Coming
104 11 December 2023 Wonka Film Review
105 12 December 2023 The Elves and the Shoemaker
106 18 December 2023 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
107 21 December 2023 Leicestershire Writers Christmas Party
108 1 January 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode One
109 8 January 2024 I Survived Some Bad Historical Fiction
110 9 January 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode Two
111 14 January 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode Three
112 15 January 2024 An Interview with Angela Pham Krans
113 17 January 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode Four
114 19 January 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode Five
115 22 January 2024 Robert Burns
116 24 January 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode Six
117 28 January 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode Seven
118 29 January 2024 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
119 5 February 2024 The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as Historical Fiction
120 8 February 2024 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Episode Eight
121 12 February 2024 The Fox and The Crow
122 19 February 2024 Winterkill by Marsha Skrypuch
123 26 February 2024 Film Predictions for 2024
124 4 March 2024 Interview with Ronni Diamondstein
125 11 March 2024 Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Coomey
126 18 March 2024 Historical Fashion in Anne of Green Gables
127 23 March 2024 Greta Gerwig Isn’t Right for Narnia
128 25 March 2024 Music in Anne of Green Gables
129 1 April 2024 THE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY PODCAST
130 4 April 2024 Sold a Story is BACK!
131 8 April 2024 “Bingen on the Rhine” in Anne of Green Gables
132 15 April 2024 “Lancelot and Elaine” in Anne of Green Gables
133 22 April 2024 The Story of St. George and the Dragon
134 29 April 2024 Politics in Anne of Green Gables
135 6 May 2024 Sold a Story Episode 10: Religious Wars over Reading
136 13 May 2024 Butterfly in the Sky
137 20 May 2024 Peter Pan Goes Wrong Made us LAUGH
138 27 May 2024 Can Peter Jackson Recapture the Magic?
139 3 June 2024 Audiobook: The History of England by Jane Austen
140 17 June 2024 Jane Austen: Sassy Teen Author
141 24 June 2024 Hamlet Unplugged: A Review of the performance by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
142 5 July 2024 Where’s Wally Has Lore
143 22 July 2024 The Poetry of Taylor Swift
144 8 August 2024 Stage Review: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
145 18 August 2024 Film Review: Harold and the Purple Crayon
146 26 August 2024 Snow Much Drama
147 4 September 2024 Tolkien About Music
148 17 September 2024 The Voice of The Shire