Required Reading

Required Reading episodes

September 13, 2023 Little House in the Big Woods with Lillian Stone
Lillian Stone takes us back to 1871 with Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods where we learn about sugar snow, smokehouses, and a lot of corn.
58 min
September 06, 2023 Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers with Adriene Vento
Adriene Vento joins us to discuss Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey, part 12 in the Adventures of Bailey School Kids series! TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of fatphobia 20:20-22:00
48 min
August 30, 2023 A Bad Case of Stripes with Elizabeth Valenti
Elizabeth Valenti discusses David Shannon's A Bad Case of Stripes! TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of violence against LGBTQ+ people 13:40-14:20. If you'd like to read along, our next book is Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers by Debbie Dadey and Marcia T Jones
36 min
August 23, 2023 The Summer I Turned Pretty with Georgia Shenk
Georgia Shenk walks us through The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han and its depiction of summer lovin', grief, and Delaware.
TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of suicide from 54:00-56:00
Transcript available here!
If you'd like to read along, our next book is A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon!
1 hr 5 min

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Required Reading revisits the most impactful books from our childhood with a new guest every week.