The Newbery Report: Recent Episodes
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The podcast where grown women read children’s books and then argue about them! Every winner of the Newbery Medal, year by year and decade by decade. We promise that it’s your new favorite book club.
Tree Ear wants to make pots, Carolyn wants Kerry to like this book, and special guest Gina Jung wants some peace and tranquility. Only robbers, social stigma, the correct method for stacking firewood stand in their way! Rest assured, no ceramic cranes were harmed in the making of this episode.
The post 2002 – A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Mary Alice (…was that her name?) isn’t having the best time at her Grandmother’s house, and let’s be frank – Kerry and Carolyn didn’t have the best time reading about it, either.
The post 2001 – A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck appeared first on RacecarRadio.
New Season! New Decade! And some important new rules, including #365: this book is awesome(!!!!!) and #28: crying at the end is allowed.
The post 2000 – Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis appeared first on RacecarRadio.
We wrap up the 1970’s with a total crowd pleaser (and Carolyn’s all-time fave), The Westing Game. Can our intrepid literary detectives put the clues together in time? Tune in to our remote broadcast from unit 4D of the world’s strangest apartment building to help solve the case!
The post 1979 – The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin appeared first on RacecarRadio.
And here it is folks… (drumroll)… the book that inspired us to begin with the 1970’s. Grab that rope swing and let’s dive in!
The post 1978 – Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Special guest Ashley Wilson joins for yet another visit to some of the less savory vistas in American history. Can she and Kerry convince Carolyn that this sojourn in the Jim Crow south is worth the trip?
The post 1977- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Tayor appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Let’s face it, Kerry’s had it up to here with superheroics, children of destiny, and other forms of pseudo-mythological hooey. Can Carolyn convince her to lift the magic harp and join the battle against the darkness (despite the ever-increasing trail of dead dogs)? Gadewch i ni ddarganfod!
The post 1976 – The Grey King, by Susan Cooper appeared first on RacecarRadio.
High-stakes musicology, puppy love at knifepoint, and a six-toed collector of live snakes – join us at the top of our 40-foot pole for a truly weird little Appalachian sojourn.
The post 1975: M.C. Higgins, The Great, by Virginia Hamilton appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Gather ‘round, children, for a laugh-a-minute romp through the middle passage! Kidnapping, forced servitude, torture, and seasickness – what could be more fun?
The post 1974: The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Which is going to prove to be the biggest problem for our favorite Inuit teenager: the Alaskan wilderness, white people, puberty, or her father? And could it be that Kerry and Carolyn actually agree about a book? Go north, listeners!
The post 1973: Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Mrs. Frisby is just a single mother of four, trying her best to raise her half-mutant mouselings in the shadow of a mysterious past and some downright weird neighbors. Carolyn loves this book like rodents love shiny trash, but Kerry’s unconvinced. Let’s shift this cinderblock!
The post 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Sara Godfrey is having the, like, worst summer ever. Pressing questions include hormones, puce shoes, and wait – where’s Charlie? Kerry fights to get Carolyn and special guest Steph Leke on board with the wild ride of puberty.
The post 1971: The Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Byars appeared first on RacecarRadio.
Our very first episode, and of course it’s also our first dead dog! There’s eatin’, and sleepin’ and talkin’ and settin’ that goes on, along with severed ears, purloined pork, and inscrutable mythological metaphors. Kerry and Carolyn are joined by special guest host Steph Leke.
The post 1970: Sounder, by William H. Armstrong appeared first on RacecarRadio.
The first episode of the Newbery Report – all about Sounder by William H. Armstrong – hits your iTunes cue on Tuesday, October 10th!
The post Season 1 Teaser: The Newbery Report, Coming Soon! appeared first on RacecarRadio.