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From the Front Porch

Episode 170 || Children‘s Book Week

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We missed Children's Book Week last week because our Reading Recap real estate is very valuable, but we want to take this opportunity to tell you about some of our favorite new books for kids and get side-tracked several times along the way! We also have new Shelf Subscription options available for children, middle readers, and young adults! Learn more and subscribe here. Mentioned this week: + Hedge Hog + Not Quite Narwhal + Part-Time Mermaid + Is It a Mermaid? + Alma + Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau + Phoebe and Her Unicorn+ Izzy Gizmo + Out of Left Field + Last Kids on Earth+ Be Prepared Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like What Annie Didn't Finish, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

So after months, I mean, like almost a year, we just got new neighbors.

0:08.1

Okay. It's been vacant?

0:09.9

vacant, and they've been basically redoing that entire house.

0:14.5

Oh, okay.

0:15.1

Which I was not aware. It was a house in poor shape.

0:18.2

Okay.

0:18.7

Like, it looks fine from the street street or it looked fine from the street.

0:22.1

However.

0:22.6

However.

0:23.9

My dear husband and I would like hear loud dog noises like at night, like lots of barking.

0:31.2

But we never saw dogs.

0:33.4

Well, it's because they had very large dogs inside. To keep people away... I don't know. They're moderately sized home. So I think this home has been undergoing renovations just because... Just for the dogs? Yes. Interesting. This isn't the bad house, is it? No. No. No, this is just so... This is literally my next door neighbor. So we're super excited, right?

0:55.7

Because now we are homeowners.

0:57.6

Right.

0:57.8

So we care about who buys the house next door.

1:01.0

So we're thrilled, except we are looking at ourselves like,

1:04.5

are we about to get priced out of this neighborhood?

1:06.5

Oh, no.

1:06.8

Because they've done so many gorgeous renovations.

1:10.2

And boy, is it making us have to step up our

1:12.1

game like i mean your house looks great my house looks great my backyard oh yeah true like an abandoned

1:19.5

witch lives there it isn't a i don't know where i was going that but like it looks like an abandoned

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