A Thousand & One Goodnights: Recent Episodes

Ben Gibson & Nick Wignall

Two dads—one a psychologist, one a book editor—explore the stories behind bedtime stories.

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Nick and Ben discuss the common theme of unsupervised children in children's books.

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Nick and Ben chat about depictions of artists in popular children's books.

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Nick and Ben chat JRR Tolkien's classic, The Hobbit.

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Nick and Ben discuss The Story Orchestra's adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.

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Nick and Ben chat about Matt LaMothe's book This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World.

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Ben and Nick discuss Julia Donaldson's Room on the Broom.

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Nick and Ben chat about three sets of three children's books you might not connect at first glance.

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Nick and Ben discuss Where's Waldo?

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Ben and Nick discuss the classic Gramm's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

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Ben and Nick discuss Eric Carle's The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse.

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Ben and Nick chat about Suzanne Lang's Grumpy Monkey.

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Ben and Nick are joined by Bryan Barrera from the I Lived the 90's podcast.

Some other stuff Bryan does:

  • DCDogRunner.com - @dc_dog_runner - DCDogPhotograper.com - @dc_dog_photographer
  • The Ultimate Guide To Running With Your Dog (Book)

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Ben and Nick discuss David Wiesner's Tuesday.

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Ben and Nick discuss Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.

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Nick and Ben discuss one of Eric Carle's lesser-known books, Walter the Baker.

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Ben and Nick discuss Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola.

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Ben and Nick discuss Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin and John Archambault.

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Nick and Ben discuss the handful of board books that they always look forward to reading.

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Ben and Nick discuss Paul Gobel's The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses.

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Ben and Nick discuss Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

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Nick and Ben discuss Roald Dahl's classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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Nick and Ben talk with John Mashni about his experience publishing his first children's book, CinderToot: A Cinderella Tooting Tale.

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Nick and Ben discuss David Carter's I'm Shy: A Bashful Little Pop-up Book.

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Ben and Nick discuss Jay Williams' The King with Six Friends.

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Nick and Ben chat with prolific children's book reviewer Dena McMurdie.

Check out more of her helpful recommendations at batchofbooks.com.

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Nick and Ben discuss The Day the Crayons Quit.

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Nick and Ben discuss Nancy Tillman's Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You.

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Nick and Ben serve up their favorite children's books that are absolutely bonkers.

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From cozy tree trunks to the dress code of nightmares, Nick and Ben sample some batty bookscapes courtesy of Raquel D'Apice.

Her perfect description of the Goodnight Moon bedroom can be found at http://theuglyvolvo.com/issues-goodnight-moon-bedroom/

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Nick and Ben discuss Barbara Berger's Grandfather Twilight.

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Ben and Nick Discuss Robert McCloskey's classic Blueberries for Sal.

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Ben and Nick do a deep dive into the weeds of children's books organizational methodologies.

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Ben and Nick discuss Waiting by Kevin Kenkes.

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Ben and Nick discuss techniques for cutting paper and critiques from third graders with Jonathan D. Miller.

Check out The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund at www.sammydogbooks.com

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Nick and Ben discuss P.D. Eastman's classic Go, Dog. Go!

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Nick and Ben discuss Adam Rubin's Dragons Love Tacos.

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Nick and Ben discuss children's books as performance pieces with writer Katy Lemieux.

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Ben and Nick discuss the George and Martha stories by James Marshall.

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Nick and Ben discuss Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back.

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Nick and Ben have a quick chat with speech-language pathologist Melissa Minney.

You can learn more about Melissa and her work on Instagram: @RaisingLittleTalkers

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Ben and Nick discuss Where is Baby's Mommy? by Ken Katz.

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Ben and Nick discuss Munro Leaf's quiet classic Ferdinand.

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Ben and Nick have a quick chat about spooky stories with publishing director Nancy Ellwood.

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Nick and Ben discuss Janette Sebring Lowrey's classic The Poky Little Puppy.

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Ben and Nick take a spirited ramble through Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece, The Wind in the Willows.

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Nick and Ben discuss Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

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Nick and Ben have a quick chat with sleep consultant Andrea De La Torre.

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Nick and Ben discuss the Sandra Boynton books.

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Nick and Ben discuss Rotraut Susanne Berner's In the Town All Year 'Round.

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Nick and Ben discuss Mo Willem's There Is a Bird on Your Head.

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Ben and Nick discuss T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

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Nick and Ben discuss Alice Schertle's Little Blue Truck.

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Nick and Ben chat about Sophie Blackall's Hello Lighthouse.

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Nick and Ben discuss Rita Jahanforuz's The Girl with a Brave Heart.

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Ben and Nick battle it out in a no holds barred discussion of the central theme of Janell Cannon's Stellaluna.

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Nick and Ben are joined by special guests Mike and Mary West to discuss William Steig's classic children's story, Brave Irene.

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Nick and Ben discuss Ian Falconer's Olivia.

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Nick and Ben discuss The Little Engine That Could.

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Nick and Ben discuss Remy Charlip's quirky classic Fortunately.

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Ben and Nick discuss B.J. Novak's The Book with No Pictures.

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Nick and Ben discuss Brian Jacques' Redwall.

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Nick and Ben discuss Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo.

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Nick and Ben discuss Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree.

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Nick and Ben discuss the classic Christmas story, The Polar Express.

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Nick and Ben discuss Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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Nick and Ben discuss the Carl books.

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Nick & Ben discuss Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince.

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Nick and Ben discuss Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen.

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Nick and Ben chat with Matt Mehan about his book Mr. Mehan's Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals.

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Nick and Ben chat with Glencora Pipkin about her book Pied Beauty: A Children's Book.

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Ben and Nick discuss Margaret Wise Brown's classic Goodnight Moon.

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Ben and Nick discuss Emily Winfield Martin's beautiful book The Wonderful Things You Will Be.

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Ben and Nick discuss Lloyd Alexander's series, The Chronicles of Prydain.

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Nick and Ben discuss Aaron Becker's Journey with a little help from their oldest kids, Elena and Jack.

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Ben and Nick discuss Dr. Seuss' classic The Cat in the Hat.

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Ben and Nick discuss Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are.

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In the final episode of Season 1, Ben and Nick discuss Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

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Ben and Nick chat about Dorothy Kunhardt's classic children's book, Pat the Bunny.

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Ben and Nick chat about Alice and Martin Provensen's Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm.

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Ben and Nick chat about Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go.

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Nick and Ben discuss We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury.

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Nick and Ben discuss Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina.