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The children's literature podcast
In Lauren’s words, ‘mothers are the scariest thing in children’s literature’. Find out why in this episode! You can download it HERE (28 min...
Purchase Cheap Generic Cialis Online Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror As a self-confessed lover of many of the ‘pleb’ genres (hello An...
What does representing other cultures in children’s literature entail? After a (long) summer break (sorry!), we are back to discuss th...
Everything you always wanted to know about sex in teenage literature, but were too afraid to ask your local librarian… In Episode 10 o...
But surely only bad quality children’s literature is ideological? In this episode, we debunk the usual myths about ‘ideologyR...
Apparently it’s not fiction, but then what is it? And why is it such a marginalised, and yet such a lucrative, domain in children̵...
Funny books for kids abound. But can children really understand humour? And what’s the hidden side of all these jokes and puns? In Epi...
What is the place of religion, God, and faith in children’s books? From the origins of children’s literature to modern-day agnos...
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In this episode we discuss the omnipresence of death in children’s books… trying to keep it merry and cheerful! You can download...
My little sister has recently discovered the joys of reading. On a recent holiday it was only her new-found habit that gave us respite from...
Playing on repetition, apparently very dear to child readers,but adding a surrealistic twist to it, Stuck, Oliver Jeffers’s latest pic...
You know a children’s book in an English bookshop is a small miracle when it’s been translated from another language. Don’...
On September 8th, at Homerton College, Cambridge, Philip Pullman gave a lecture on Philippa Pearce and Tom’s Midnight Garden, choosing...
One thing an e-reader was supposed to do was to remove ‘library anxiety’ – otherwise known as the worry that people will judge you by the bo...
Yes, I know: where have I been these past six years?? It is the unforgivable truth, I had not yet read Percy Jackson. But now that I have at...
This episode – which you can listen to by clicking HERE, or on the media player in the sidebar, or simply get it from iTunes – i...
If you’re the ‘Oh please not another supernatural romance!’ type, just close this window and go tweet/ play Angry Birds/ d...
When I was a real girl my best friend was called Cassandra… Novels about eating disorders always disconcert me, as they are so hard to...
A heartwarming story in a great frozen land… Yes, I know, that was possibly the corniest sentence I’ve ever written. Still, that...
A friend and fellow PhD student is currently reading the Hunger Games trilogy, and she’s reading it compulsively, as required by the b...
Bedbound for a significant portion of the week, I wanted something light to take my mind off things, so I escaped to the jungle with Fintan...
‘What? Ideology? But children’s books aren’t ideological – that would be propaganda, it would be sacrilegious, it would be...
Loyal listeners and lovely listeners-to-be, our problem with iTunes is now fixed. You can subscribe by clicking here ! Thanks a lot for your...
In this episode we discuss the controversial labels of ‘trash’ and ‘quality’… Click HERE to download the episo...
An interesting thing about children’s books – when compared to adults’ books – is the strange preoccupation people seem to have with the not...
This could be the subject of a whole book, but I’ll spare you the conceptual and definitional jargon. Here are five concise reasons wh...
David Walliams’s latest children’s novel is an easy-going, fun book, clearly geared to appeal to boys (and we do need boys’...
The most significant Harry-Potter-premiere-related tweet of the week was no doubt Barry Cunningham’s (@barrychicken) heart-wrenching (...
The weekend was spent in a flood of tears. Not because of any personal crisis in my own life, but because I finally read Jenny Downham’...
Patrick Ness winning the Carnegie Medal was somewhat lost in the hype surrounding Pottermore (including on Kid You Not!). Author of the Chao...
Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari (Macmillan, 2011) Teenage novel. Winner of the 2011 Waterstones’s Children’s Book Prize. It...
One minute forty-nine seconds of JK Rowling interspersed with beautiful (if slightly bobo) animation leave us with more questions than answe...
And you can subscribe to our podcast by clicking here! Thanks to this clever bit of technology, the next episodes of Kid You Not will downlo...
Click HERE to download Episode One of Kid You Not Podcast! (28 minutes) or listen to it on the feed player in the right sidebar –>...
As a little teaser in advance of the release tomorrow, we thought we’d provide you with a brief account of our experience making the first e...
We’re busy editing the first episode of the podcast, preparing the next one, and thinking up a publicity plan. Come back on Sunday 19t...