Episode 28: The Joy of Reading with Kids + Special Co-Hosts Jackson and Micah!
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are so excited to finally bring you this very special episode, which we, and our kiddos, have been looking forward to for a long time!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of the hosts: preparing with our sons for the special deep dive in this week's episode (yep, that's one bookish moment for the two of us!).
Next, we discuss our current reads. Since we wanted to leave time for the kids, we give you only two (and a half) titles each this week, and they are all over the map.
Our deep dive this week is a super special interview with Jackson Schwartz, 7, and Micah Cobb, 8. These two boys have big opinions about the books they have read and loved. And the way they relate to each other is downright adorable. Anyone else think this needs to be a regular feature? We are totally smitten.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. There are four (or more) titles in this week's pressed books segment, so get those Amazon clickers ready!
As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!
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3:41 - The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
3:52 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
6:57 - Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Latidan
7:11 - The Honest Toddler
7:20 - Toddlers Are A**holes by Bunmi Latidan
10:36 - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
10:44 - The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
11:49 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
13:03 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
13:50 - The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
14:10 - American Marriage by Tayari Jones
14:28 - A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
17:52 - The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks
19:46 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
21:02 - Inspector Flytrap: The Da Vinci Cold by Tom Angleberger
22:08 - The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
22:34 - Dogman by Dav Pilkey
22:47 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
24:23 - Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
24:36 - Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot by Dav Pilkey
26:26 - Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
28:59 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
30:44 - Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
31:50 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
31:59 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
33:28 - The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
36:10 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
37:48 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
38:17 - On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | We are two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently |
| 0:19.0 | and get your library card ready because we're going to load up your hold list today. I am Meredith |
| 0:24.5 | Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area |
| 0:29.0 | and for me raising children who Reed is one of my highest priorities as a parent. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom four aged eight and under living in New Mexico. |
| 0:39.5 | And I read for a good empathy cry sometimes. This is episode number 28 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:46.0 | Well that's interesting. Hey before we go too far I had a friend who listened to the |
| 0:52.1 | podcast and she was texting me this week and she was saying you |
| 0:56.1 | know one thing that I wish that you guys would do at the top of the show is |
| 1:01.0 | tell us what your deep dive is going to be about later in the show. |
| 1:06.9 | And I said, get your own podcast if you have such strong opinion. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm just kidding. |
| 1:11.9 | I said, good idea.'s a that's a really really smart idea well we kind of hint it in the show titles often too that's true that's true but I think it's a good idea so today's deep dive do you want to talk a little bit about it because I know we're both really looking forward to it? |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, we're so excited to get to share with our sons that are very similar in age this week. |
| 1:32.0 | So we're excited to share their voices with you guys and their book preferences and their reading preferences. So if you have kiddos that like to listen with you, this episode is kind of for them a little bit today. |
| 1:44.0 | We're gonna have our regular format |
| 1:45.0 | and then you'll get to deep dive with Jackson and Micah |
| 1:48.0 | in a little while, which will be really fun. |
| 1:50.0 | And they give a lot of really great recommendations. |
| 1:52.0 | I was happy with how that turned out. |
| 1:53.8 | Yeah, we already recorded that, and we think you're going to love it. |
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