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We celebrated our 50th episode by talking about our favorite picture books and discussing our favorite memories from the two and a half years we’ve been doing the podcast.
Mentioned on this episode:
Deborah’s favorites:
Curious George Takes a Job by H.A. Rey
The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry
Mary Grace’s favorites:
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Also mentioned:
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
The U.S. Postal Service’s The Snowy Day stamps
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
New York Times articles about The Giving Tree (here and here)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Danny Dunn: Into the Volcano (forthcoming)
Other episodes mentioned:
Rereading Stuart Little by E.B. White
Rereading Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Rereading Little Town on the Prairie, with Judith Kalb
The podcast is hosted by Buzzsprout at rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com and is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms.
You can find Deborah at deborahkalb.com and Mary Grace at My Life 100 Years Ago.
This episode was edited by Adam Linder of Bespoken Podcasting.
Rereading Our Childhood 