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We Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Season 1 Episode 7
We're all mad here. Specifically, Eleanor is mad about people saying Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on drugs and Alasdair is ma…
9 months ago
We Read The Secret Garden
Season 1 Episode 6
Sickly, spoiled and terrified of the outside world, Eleanor and Alasdair read The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett's kidlit classic is the stor…
10 months ago
We Read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Season 1 Episode 5
Like a pair of creepy twins, Eleanor and Alasdair venture up Alderley Edge to meet the Wizard. We read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner's 1…
11 months ago
We Read The Witches
Season 1 Episode 4
Eleanor and Alasdair read a Roald Dahl book about some absolutely horrid women. "Which one?" you quite reasonably ask. It's The Witches: a grotesquel…
1 year ago
We Read Peter Rabbit
Season 1 Episode 3
Eleanor and Alasdair read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the story of a semi-nude rabbit tormenting the Scotsman who killed his father. Beatrix Potter's f…
1 year, 1 month ago
We Read Treasure Island
Season 1 Episode 2
Ha harr! Eleanor and Alasdair read Treasure Island by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who is Scottish. Treasure Island is a tale of deadl…
1 year, 2 months ago
We Read The Famous Five
Season 1 Episode 1
Putting the ginger in ginger beer, Eleanor and Alasdair read Five Go To Demon's Rocks by Enid Blyton. The Internet Famous Two join some posh children…
1 year, 3 months ago
We Read The Hobbit - Pilot Episode
Episode 1
Eleanor and Alasdair read The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel is a millennial horror story about a guy who has to attend an unexpected party. I…
1 year, 3 months ago