Ep 354 - Fungus the Bogeyman and Dragons Love Tacos (Children's Book Week 2019)

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This year's Children's Book Week - on the eve of the podcast's first child, no less - is about Raymond Briggs' weirdly existential and British Fungus the Bogeyman, and the much lighter and sillier Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri.

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0:00.0	This is a head gum podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	I feel like recording these after Game of Thrones is a real mistake.
0:46.7	Every week I just come in so mad and I have to do my friendly book podcast, especially
0:52.2	this week where we're reading kids books for kids book week.
0:55.6	Yeah, it's Children's Book Week, Andrew.
0:57.4	Children's Book Week on the podcast that we do that is called.
1:02.6	Hey, everybody welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books that you've been meeting
1:06.4	to read.
1:07.4	My name is Craig.
1:08.4	My name is Andrew.
1:09.4	And it is the 100th Children's Book Week, Andrew.
1:12.8	Well nice.
1:13.8	You know that.
1:14.8	No, I didn't know they'd been doing it for this song.
1:16.8	Yeah, it was formally run by the Children's Book Council, but it is now administered by
1:23.6	the like nonprofit arm called Every Child a Reader.
1:26.9	And it was founded a hundred years ago by a librarian named Franklin Matthews.
1:35.4	My notes don't say Franklin, but I think that must be me mistyping.
1:38.4	I'm not sure.
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