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