Rereading Our Childhood

The podcast where we revisit the books that made us who we are today.

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An update: we're no longer posting here. You can find us at the other place at rereadingpodcast dot bsky dot social. Hope to see you there!

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On this week's podcast, we discuss one of our childhood favorites, Freaky Friday, and the complicated life of its author, Mary Rodgers. https://t.co/MPDx2F0hNA

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"How much do you really know about Madeleine L'Engle?" the @nytimesbooks Read Like the Wind newsletter asks, clearly not knowing who they're talking to. https://t.co/N95k1Rtd8B

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Deborah and Mary Grace celebrated Halloween by reading two books about witches, The Little Witch and The Little Leftover Witch, and discussing other favorite books about witches. You can listen to the episode here: https://t.co/EmtKJVdVEm

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This week, we discuss A Wrinkle in Time, one of the greatest children's books of all time. It was #23 on the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged children's books during the 1990s. #BannedBooksWeek https://t.co/qln00EpttO

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A sobering new report on book banning from PEN America.

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Calls for books to be removed have frequently and inaccurately labeled books as “harmful” or “obscene,” and conflated any #LGBTQ+ content with “pornography,” in a reliance on long-standing, discriminatory tropes.

Read our #BannedInTheUSA report: https://t.co/WR4jeoqQZY

[PEN America @PENamerica]

Calls for books to be removed have frequently and inaccurately labeled books as “harmful” or “obscene,” and conflated any #LGBTQ+ content with “pornography,” in a reliance on long-standing, discriminatory tropes.

Read our #BannedInTheUSA report: https://t.co/WR4jeoqQZY

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Ten episodes already! Deborah took this photograph to commemorate the occasion.

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On the latest episode, we read The Great Brain, the adventures of a family of boys in 19th-century Utah. It's a surprising (to first-time reader Mary Grace) mix of rollicking adventure and grimness. https://t.co/849ehybLpf

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If you don't know, you might want to check out our podcast to be on the safe side.

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The house I’m staying in has plates with owls on, what could possibly go wrong 🦉

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For our latest episode, we read Alan Garner's 1967 novel The Owl Service, about three teenagers in Wales who find themselves reliving a Welsh legend of love and betrayal. Definitely our scariest read so far! https://t.co/OaHHQUs71j

[Mary Grace McGeehan @mgmcgeehan]

Deborah Kalb is definitely a person I'd love to hang out with this September -- I'm glad Washingtonian Magazine agrees!
https://t.co/gNjAY5Z7l1

[Friends of HISD Libraries @HisdLibFrnds]

"I was always tucked off in a corner reading a book. I read every Hardy Boys book & pretty much all of the Nancy Drew & Encyclopedia Brown books... Literacy & education are the keys to the kingdom.”
Every #HISD student deserves a school library.
#txed #txlege @teamHISD #literacy

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In the latest episode, we match wits with Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, and with each other. https://t.co/Fz9m57Y0P1

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

The house I’m staying in has plates with owls on, what could possibly go wrong 🦉

[Mary Grace McGeehan @mgmcgeehan]

So happy to see this well-deserved rave review of Off to Join the Circus by Deborah Kalb, my friend and fellow podcaster.

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

The Fault in Our Stars has been removed from the YA section in the suburbs of Indianapolis and is now considered a "book for adults." This is ludicrous. It is about teenagers and I wrote it for teenagers.
Teenagers are not harmed by reading TFIOS. This is such an embarrassment to the city of @FishersIN.

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We celebrate the beginning of a new school year by rereading "B" is for Betsy, Carolyn Haywood's 1939 novel about a little girl navigating the complicated world of first grade. https://t.co/Oj02d11cYo #childrensbooks #kidlit

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Great to see this mention of Deborah's new novel--and of our podcast--in Bethesda Magazine!
https://t.co/FKpUtc1Ts8

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In our latest episode, we discuss Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild's 1936 classic about three sisters who attend a London performing arts school.
https://t.co/k30XcjyuES