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We Read Johnny and the Bomb
Season 2 Episode 4
Eleanor and Alasdair step into the trousers of time, with Terry Pratchett's 1996 novel Johnny and the Bomb. Five inept British teens find themselves …
11 hours ago
We Read The Cat in the Hat & The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Season 2 Episode 3
1957–1968 was a golden age of big cats breaking into kids' houses and smashing up the joint. For this episode, Eleanor & Alasdair read Dr Seuss's The…
1 month ago
We Read The Wind in the Willows
Season 2 Episode 2
Eleanor and Alasdair are fighting! Eleanor is in love with Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, but for Alasdair... it's complicated. The 1908 …
2 months ago
We Read The Borrowers
Season 2 Episode 1
She's small. She's ginger. She's very hard to get out of your house. No, not Eleanor Morton. We're talking about Arietty Clock, the tiny teenage prot…
3 months ago
We Read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Part 2)
Season 1 Episode 13
The stone table cracks and Eleanor & Alasdair return to Narnia. It's time to pass judgement on The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Eleanor sings the …
4 months ago
We Read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 12
Always-winter-but-never-Christmas starts earlier every year, doesn't it? Eleanor and Alasdair read C. S. Lewis's furniture-based children's classic T…
4 months ago
We Read Watership Down
Season 1 Episode 11
Eleanor & Alasdair take you down to Watership City, where the grass is green and the girls are... hang on, where are all the girls? We read Watersh…
5 months ago
We Read The Worst Witch
Episode 10
A boarding school for witches? Imagine that! No, not Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Bigotry. We're talking about Miss Cackle's Academy, from Jill …
6 months ago
We Read The Railway Children (Live)
Season 1 Episode 9
The Railway Children is an Edwardian children's classic and health & safety nightmare. Edith "E" Nesbit's novel is packed with unforgettable characte…
7 months ago
We Read The Story of Tracy Beaker
Season 1 Episode 8
Eleanor and Alasdair read The Story of Tracy Beaker. Jacqueline Wilson's 1991 hit has spawned numerous sequels and TV spin-offs, but Alasdair has mis…
8 months ago