Required Reading

Longest episode title ever? Perhaps. You're welcome.

Teaching artist Sara Childrey joins me to discuss TWO movies: The Swan Princess (1994) and Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)!

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Check out some other movie episodes:

• The Nightmare Before Christmas!
• The Last Unicorn!

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Poet and author Erin Taylor joins me to discuss Kate Chopin's 1899 novel THE AWAKENING.

Edna Pontellier struggles between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century Louisiana. (Wikipedia)

Erin Taylor's book Bimboland!

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Author Alex Brunkhorst joins me to discuss what was almost our very first book - The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. It just turned 100!

Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. (Wikipedia)

Read Alex's novel The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine!

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Another solo episode! Do you like these? Please let me know.

Goosebumps book 3 follows Evan Ross when he discovers a can of "Monster Blood" in an old toy store. And it's got an appetite.

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Listen to Goosebumps Book 1!

Book two in our Goosebumps deep dive! Something weird is going on with Dad ever since he got fired from his job - and why is he wearing that hat all the time? Could be he's a mad scientist!

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Listen to Goosebumps Book 1!

Zannah Schorer returns to discuss Brandon Mull's absolutely buck wild novel: FABLEHAVEN.

Kendra and Seth discover their grandparents live on a nature preserve for all the world's mythical creatures (a haven, you might say, for fables...)

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Listen to Zannah's previous episode about The Tail of Emily Windsnap!

I love this one :) Writer Christin Campbell joins me to discuss the 1982 Rankin/Bass film THE LAST UNICORN!

A unicorn leaves the protection of her enchanted forest to discover if she really is the last of her kind.

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Another Required Viewing episode: The Nightmare Before Christmas!

Rachel Moss joins me to discuss Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo from 2002! Many write it off as a Harry Potter rip-off but - hear this - it might be a whole lot better.

When Charlie Bone discovers he can hear the voices of people in photographs he is whisked away to the Bloor Academy to train his powers, where he becomes entrenched in a generations-old battle for power.

AND: Erin is in last week's episode of Mythic Quest (season 4 episode 8 around 17 minutes in) on Apple TV!

Keep your eyes peeled for Rachel's short MAX DISTANCE!

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It's just me this week! I am debuting a new intermittent series where I read all of RL Stine's immaculate Goosebumps series!

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Madeline Douglass returns and this time we've got a third: former co-worker Luke Henke! We all worked in a Girl Scout Museum in college. Jealous?

From Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 comes one of the first mass-produced books of all time: The Scarlet Letter. The novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man (minister Arthur Dimmesdale) to whom she is not married. As punishment, she must wear a scarlet letter 'A' (for "adultery"). Summary from Wikipedia (which Luke gives a lil speech about!)

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