Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards discuss childhood, innocence and growing up. 

• Introduction: Innocence and the importance of remembering childhood.
• Chapter 1: We buy books for kids to expand their minds and their worlds. But does literature for and about children have something to offer adults as well? Laura Harris, Publishing Director at Penguin Random House Australia, joins Jamila and Astrid to answer this question.
• Chapter 2: The Bluey universe, with special guest Rafi Rizvi-Smith.
• Chapter 3: His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.
• Recommendations: For younger children, Jamila recommends Where Is The Green Sheep? by Mem Fox (illustrated by Judy Horacek) and Davina Bell’s All the Ways To Be Smart. For older readers, Astrid recommends Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time, Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles (there are seven in the series) and Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor Chronicles (there are two in the series to date).

 

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This podcast is brought to you by Future Women and Penguin Random House Australia. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

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