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 Are You Serious??? Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog [6:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Jeanne Willis (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Tony Ross (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Andersen Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 9780761351511

Unrealistically scrawny pop culture ideals, issues of acceptance and fears of unhealthy body image have made fitness and healthy eating tricky issues to address. This brazenly British picture book pulls no punches about the dangers of the couch potato lifestyle.

What do you think?

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.

 

 Flow and Freedom: Journey to the River Sea [4:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Eva Ibbotson (on JOMB)
Published: 2002 Penguin (on JOMB)
ISBN: 033039715X

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Today, our 9 year old daughter, Lucy, tells us why she absolutely adores this beautifully written and inspiring Amazon adventure.

Click here to listen to our chat with Eva Ibbotson on her 83rd birthday.

Other beloved books by Eva Ibbotson:

• Which Witch?
• The Great Ghost Rescue
• The Secret of Platform 13
• The Star of Kazan
• The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
• Dial-a-Ghost
• Island of the Aunts (a.k.a. Monster Mission)

Click here for other Eva Ibbotson book reviews by Lucy and click here to see the postcard Eva sent to Lucy and Bayla earlier this year in response to their 84th birthday cards.

LISTENER HOTLINE: Chuck Stanley enjoys sharing his childhood love of Fox in Socks (by Dr. Seuss) with his own children.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

 

 Of Comfort and Coping: Michael Rosen's Sad Book [7:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Michael Rosen (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Quentin Blake (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Candlewick Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0763641049

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This beautifully honest confession of the ups, the downs, the confusion and fond memories of a father dealing with the death of his son offers a rare, candid, detailed look at sadness, solitude and the strength to carry on.

More thoughtful resilience on JOMB:

• The Sound of Colors
• Connecting with Val Willis: The Magic of ‘My Horse, My Passion’

You can celebrate Poetry Friday by watching and listening to Michael Rosen performing each one of the poems from his out-of-print book of children’s poetry ‘The Hypnotiser’ here.

Pop over to Wild Rose Reader for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

HOTLINE VOICES: Maureen Stanley shares her love of The Giving Tree (by Shel Silverstein).

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

 

 Choosing Love over Luxury: Ella's Big Chance (A Jazz-Age Cinderella) [7:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Shirley Hughes (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Shirley Hughes
Published: 2003 Simon & Schuster (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0689873999

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Rife with bobs, crops and cloche hats, beads, bangles and silk, this refreshing Roaring Twenties rendition of the traditional tale swaps the wincing minion for a spunky, talented and unflapperishly curvy Cinderella who, like another C-character we’ll all be watching this weekend, understands that we really don’t want everything we want.

More from the Jazz Era on JOMB:

• When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat
• Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
• Ben’s Trumpet
• Jazz ABZ (An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits)

HOTLINE VOICES: Thanks to Maddy Lau of Styling with Renee Michelle shares her memories of The Little Prince (by Antoine de Saint Exupéry).

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

 

 Chuckles, Chats & Controversy: Mummy Never Told Me [7:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Babette Cole (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Babette Cole (on JOMB)
Published: 2003 Random House UK (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0099407132

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Kids do wonder. Kids do ask. If you can think of questions that might make you squirm, you’ll likely find at least one of them in this hilariously illustrated exploration of the often-hushed. Have a chuckle, have a chat. We bet you’ll be glad you did.

Looking at the web, it seems that ours is an unpopular opinion. We’d love to hear where you stand…

More sexuality on JOMB:

• What’s the Big Secret?

More non-traditional families on JOMB:

• The Not-So-Only Child

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

We’re thrilled to announce that our Just One More Book! podcast is being re-broadcast on terrestrial radio in Birmingham, UK (Thursday evenings at 9pm GMT). You can also tune in to Unity FM live using the internet, by clicking here.

Unity FM aims to build a confident community at ease with itself where individuals live together in harmony. Many thanks to Unity FM for making us part of it.

A big welcome to Unity FM listeners. We hope you’ll leave us a comment to tell us about your favourite children’s books — and that you’ll find some new favourites here on Just One More Book!

Click here for UK flavours on JOMB.

 

 Interview with Neil Gaiman [13:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

He’s the inspiration for many things in pop-culture including a race of aliens on Babylon 5, the name of a planet in the Star Wars: Rebellion video game and a CD of music. He’s written almost every type of literature. His book Coraline will be released as a movie on February 6th of this year, and yesterday, he won the 2009 Newbery award for The Graveyard Book.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, author Neil Gaiman talks about blogging, giving his books away for free on the Internet and keeping his fans up to date using Twitter.

Concise version of Neil Gaiman on the web

• Neil Gaiman’s journal (blog)
• Neil Gaiman on Twitter
• Browse Coraline online until February 5, 2009
• Browse The Graveyard Book online
• The Graveyard Book video tour

Photo from Neil’s Twitter feed.

 

 Woolly's Got His Number: Mammoth Pie [6:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Jeanne Willis (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Tony Ross (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Andersen Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1842706594

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Comedic visual details and snappy, cumulative verse remind us that cunning and co-operation can’t compensate for a grossly underestimated opponent in this hilarious account of six scrawny cavemen and their quest for Ice Age tourtière.

Other books mentioned:

• Dr. Xargle’s Book of Earth Hounds
• The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza

And, what do you know, it’s the exact same story as our Just One More Book! theme song “Woolly Mammoth”, compliments of Robert Farrell.

 

 Far-Out Friendship: The Way Back Home [5:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Oliver Jeffers (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Published: 2007 Harper Collins (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0007182325

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Cheery, matter-of-fact narration and gorgeous fridge-door worthy art give us a mind’s eye view of one whopping lunar adventure in this beautiful tale of space travel, spunk and solidarity.

HOTLINE VOICES: Victoria Long fondly remembers her mother reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond) to her.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

 

 Celebrating our 500th Episode: Chapter Book Chatter [39:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

To celebrate the 500th episode of our JustOneMoreBook! Children’s Book Podcast, our daughters, Lucy (9) and Bayla (7), share their thoughts on a few of their favourite chapter books.

Books mentioned:

• Anne of Green Gables
• Before Green Gables (Budge Wilson on JOMB)
• Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
• Dial-a-Ghost (Eva Ibbotson on JOMB)
• Dodger and Me
• Horrid Henry and the Mega Mean Time Machine
• Horrid Henry Meets the Queen
• If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor, 1918 (Jean Little on JOMB)
• Ivy and Bean: Bound to be Bad
• Journey to the River Sea (Eva Ibbotson on JOMB)
• Kendra Kandlestar and the Shard from Greeve (Lee Edward Fodi on JOMB)
• Little Wolf , Terror of the Shivery Sea (Ian Whybrow on JOMB)
  Monster Mission (Eva Ibbotson on JOMB)
• Mr Gumm and the Power Crystals
• No Safe Harbour, The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn, 1917
• Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger (Kevin Bolger on JOMB)
• The Dreadful Truth: The Northwest Passage
• The Great Ghost Rescue (Eva Ibbotson on JOMB)
• The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart on JOMB)
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (Trenton Lee Stewart on JOMB)
• The Penderwicks (Jeanne Birdsall on JOMB)
• The Penderwicks On Gardam Street (Jeanne Birdsall on JOMB)
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Secret of Platform 13 (Eva Ibbotson on JOMB)
• The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
• The Star of Kazan (Eva Ibbotson on JOMB)
• Which Witch? (Eva Ibbotson on JOMB)
• You’re a Bad Man Mr. Gumm

We hope you’ll help us celebrate by sharing some of your favourite chapter book titles in our comments section.

Thank you for making our 500 episodes possible. Looking forward to show #1000.

Andrea & Mark

 

 Interview with Ian Whybrow on Booktrust and Booktime [12:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Not everyone has the means to own children’s books; some have other priorities. And, with the increasing pace of the modern era, a growing number of parents are finding it difficult to find the time or energy to sit down with their children to read together.

Two years almost to the day after his first appearance on Just One More Book!!, author of the Little Wolf series and the Harry and the Dinosaurs books popularized through their own television show, Ian Whybrow returns, this time to discuss an initiative to put two free books in the hands of children who are reporting to school for the first time of their academic career in the hopes of encouraging parents to read aloud with their children.

For more information, please visit the following links:

• Booktrust
• Booktime
• Pearson Media
• BBC report

Photo: Captured from the BBC report

 

 Love of Reading Gallery - Oliver Jeffers [5:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

When we put out the call for illustrations that promote a love of reading, we didn’t expect to receive 51 submissions in about a month.

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we’re conducting short interviews with each illustrator that contributed to our Love of Reading Gallery. These interviews will be published three times each week as extra shows in our interview feed.

Author, illustrator and artist Oliver Jeffers makes an encore appearance on this edition of Just One More Book!! This time Oliver talks about his Love of Reading Gallery submission titled The Incredible Book Reading Joy.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Relevant links:

• Interview with Oliver Jeffers on Just One More Book!!
• Review of The Incredible Book Eating Boy on Just One More Book!!
• National Literacy Trust