Mike and David have a rockin’ conversation about Sandra Boynton’s Going to Bed Book. WARNING: The animals do something CRAZY before going to bed!! You were warned. And they will they will rock you(r kids to sleep)!
Mike and David deal with grammactical (sic) errors, math is hard, and politics? (No). There's also an epiphany about a hippo—hippiphany?—about who—whom?!—is brushing their teeth. No buts about it, these animals are wild!
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Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder: Cliff's Notes and Spoiler Alerts
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In our first ever year-end wrap up, Mike and David talk about a book they didn’t necessarily love, but then discovered that they loved a lot about it and then discovered in an epiphany kinda way that they DO like it as David did some inadvertent research.
Mike and David's neologism du semaine: (new word of the week): Millustrations!
Speaking of which, it's a great book for encouraging young boys to read because there are ton (millions?) of very fun illustrations. Check it out.
And if you liked this episode (or even if you didn’t) you’ll LOVE these:
Fancy Nancy and the Case of the '80s Throwbacks
Frog and Toad are similar.
We’ve got not one, but two (2) Dan Gutman episodes!
Part One: Where are Dr. Carbles Marbles! and where's my Pfeffernusse?
Part Two: Carbles Marbles, Castro's Astros
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Happy New Year!!
Lots of fun as the Dads talk about The Story of the Wooden Coin, our first Christmas book—well, the first Christmas book at Christmas time. David dances on rhythm whatever that means; Mike chose the Hanukkah book, so, naturally, since David is Catholic, Mike chooses the Christmas book—wait, what?! Also, it’s our second episode in a row to reference Lake Placid 1980. A season of Miracles.
Warning! There might be some verklemption (verklempting?) and other issues with no tissues.
If you liked this episode, you will SO love these:
All About Hanukkah, Channukah, AND Khanukkah
El Deafo: Friends and graphic novels (pics, rabbits, and 4 shadows)
Where are Dr. Carbles Marbles! and where's my Pfeffernusse?
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In our first holiday episode—well, at least our first episode on a book about a holiday around the same time that the holiday that the book is about falls—anyway here’s our first book about Hanukkah: All about Hanukkah by Judyth Groner and Madeline Wikler, illustrated by Kinny Kreiswirth.
Everything you wanted to know about Hanukkah and so much more! Among other things, David doesn't start at the beginning and eventually figures it out. Mike learns the origin story of a scene that David did with Mike's wife Kim in the 1900s, and even Mike learns a thing or two about the history of Hanukkah despite celebrating for many years with his family.
The ultimate debate is resolved: when it comes to latke toppings (sour cream or applesauce?), the answer is…take a listen.
The episode wraps up with Dad Joke Monday featuring not one, but two Dad Jokes as there are two Dads. So that’s one per dadica. (Latin for “per dad”)
Next week? Our first Christmas episode, well our first one near Christmas.
If you liked this episode, you’ll love our first one about a Christmas book Olivia Helps with Christmas aka Christmas in May.
Holy carp! this is our 30th episode
and at this moment we have 988 listens!!
Mike and David return to short books—board books even!—with Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann, and they are so excited about good and night being two words and the comma in the title!!
The Dads discuss the nods to Goodnight Moon including the ever-present mouse and the ever-present, or almost always ever-present balloon and other mysteries and controversies.
The chat? Mike comes clean, David learns he’s been mispronouncing something for decades. The art? Vibrant palate, beautiful colors and really cool details including nods to children’s literature and even television references.
Check it out.
If you liked this episode, you’ll love:
Goodnight Moon, one of the inspirations of this book.
Good night. Or Good. Day. Or Good Grief, Charlie Brown...
We get to part two of our conversation with My Weird School series (and many many other silly and some not silly books) Dan Gutman. Our surprise guest shows up. Will we find Dr. Carbles? Or his marbles? Take a listen and find out.
Bonus stuff:
Dan’s writing tips for young (and old) aspiring writers:
Dan and David try to outdraw each other and we don’t mean in the Jim Paillot way.
We learn what inspired Dan to be a writer (it wasn’t because he wasn’t good enough at baseball, but that didn’t hurt!).
We discover how much he prepared for our book talk —“We start in an hour and—oh crap! We’re gonna talk about Dr. Carbles losing his marbles! Do I even have that? Do I even remember it?!”
And other fun things.
If you liked this episode, you’ll LOVE these:
Dan Gutman is a Nutman, Part 1
The FIRST time Ruby joined us it was the whole episode! El Deafo
Mike and David welcome their first non-daughter guest, Dan Gutman, the nutman, author of the My Weird(er and erestEST...) School Series(esEST?), and the recently released The Picasso Curse and OH SOOO many more.
Dan discusses his “What if” theory of writing (What if Castro became an Astro?, What if Picasso became an Queso) and denies VEHEMENTLY any involvement in the recent Louvre heist.
We discover that Dan Gutman is a Nutman, Mike Walker is a Caulker/ balker, and David Patrick is a HatTrick—sorry, that’s the only rhyme this thyme. Unless you consider Mhyme...
And about the million hundred times Mike heads off to the bathroom? Tune in next week for the conclusion, and a super fantastical surprise.
Looking for an episode we touched on in this one? How about:
Big Words for Little People
or
It's Halloween, I'm Turning Green (with envy after spending a million hundred dollars on a new library card)
another DG WSB
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The "Dads on Books" welcomed Lucy Patrick, who selected a copy of the 1947 classic, Good Night Moon. Lucy chose her sticky shredded copy of the book mostly because the mouse is "really cute". The dads, with a lot of help from brilliant Lucy, calculate that it took the little bunny a wopping 70 minutes to finally fall asleep. They debated whether the pages stuck together from "peas and tea", discussed the controversial missing comma in the title, and Lucy notes that the cozy room is a major "fire hazard". In the end, we all agree that parents of young children should retitle the book "Goodnight Moon... and Good Luck."
Looking for an episode we talked about today? How about:
It's Halloween, I'm Turning Green (with envy after spending a million hundred dollars on a new library card)
or
Little House in the Big Woods: the Dads Learn to Smoke a Deer
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Another daughter, another series! David’s Sarah and Warrior Cats’s Into the Wild! by Erin “faux” Hunter. Mike reads the wrong book. Again. And is lost. David reads the right book. Again. And is lost. Sarah is not lost and finds the Dads. It’s a wild wonderful world of cat clans and hyphens and blood-beats. This epic tale is so huge that Sarah is currently devouring the 34th book, proving that cat drama truly is endless (and tasty). There’s also a huge dictionary rescued from a sorority house. We like big books, and we cannot lie.
Mike and David return to totally toddler tomes—fewer words, no chapters, and more pictures with one of their favorite and fun authors award-garnering Mo Willems. We're talking about illustrious, illylu—pictures again. SPOILER ALERT—We love the art! So simple, yet so profound with an hint of/ notes of cranberry and sage. And David messes up his animals. Again. Where’s the pigeon?! On his head?
What's up duck?
Looking for an episode we touched on in this one? How about:
Cars and Trucks... and Things That Go and Steve and John
or another of our favorites
Big Words for Little People
Tell us you favorite books and authors in case we forgot the most awesome book ever!
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In the third “Since we are Dads on Books, we have daughters, and they can be Guests!“ episode, Mike’s daughter Ruby joins us with one of her favorite books—it's teacher and school librarian approved!!—and our first graphic novel, El Deafo by CeCe Bell. We touch on a mashup of Little House and the Waltons, a German version of the muppets (DasMuppetz), Grease (🎼tell me more, tell me more! 🎶), and other 70s stuff. We also get a little personal and touching. It’s what we do. Check it out.
This time there’s someone next to David—his daughter Delaney! Mike and David welcome their second guest. Ever. We delve into the wonderful world of Percy Jackson. WARNING: this book has no pictures!! And is long. Longer than our previous reads. And read the chapter titles first. Trust us. Trust her. From accidental teacher vaporization to taking a zebra to Vegas or a god buying us a cheeseburger, you won’t regret it. 🍔 And so much sarcasm. PerSassy Jackson as they call him. We learn that tin cans (and 7 layer dip) are vegetables. Oh, and we love it.
Mike and David talk about "Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus" by Barbara Park. Let's just say they're not on board with this one--a first! While there's some fun: Mike likes that it's made of paper and when he learned that "a relief is when your stomach doesn't feel squeezy anymore." And David liked STEWED TOMATOES!! this one just isn't their can of tea.
Looking for an episode we touched on in this one? How about:
Ivy and Bean
or
The World According to Humphrey: Oh, For Squeek's Sake
And let us not forget...
It's Halloween, I'm Turning Green
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Mike and David get flat with Stanley! Mike discovers him in a book store in Ohio, and David gets a blast from his past with his nephew's Flat Stanley Project—Flat Stanley was a book?! Travel through time as Mike and David try to figure out when the heck the book was written. 1944? 1964? LANGUAGE WARNING!! Old timey words like “gosh”, “heavens”, and “darnedist” are heavily used. Or at least referred to. Rated HHH—Hopeless! HOPELESS! HOPELESS!!!
Get ready for a "pink-tastic" episode with Mike and David, the Dads on Books! Fresh off Podcast Movement (#pm25), they dove into Pinkalicious. Mike "forgot" the plot, so he rediscovered the joy of her pink transformation. They loved Daddy's "tired finger" and the book's cool collage illustrations. Plus, they had a "comma-n" good time discussing punctuation, especially the ellipsis overuse by the over-50 crowd. They even teased upcoming reads, proving these dads are truly "book-ish.”
Mike and David welcome their first guest. EVER. Mike's daughter and brand new college student Stella who read Ivy and Bean as a child and--spoiler alert--still loves it!! Stella doesn't miss a bean--beat as she dives in to the normal dad banter and tangents on improv, prepositions, and Steve Carrell. Stella brings unexpectedly expected "sass" to the discussion, including (but not limited to) calling out David's struggling tendency to mispronounce "illustrator" as "horrible" and teaching the Dads contemporary slang like "Fire" and "Ate it up" to express approval. Not of them, just in general.
The Dads on Books, Mike and David, chug along discussing The Little Engine That Could, proving they "think they can" podcast! David chose the book, then, like a lost toy, couldn't quite recall why. Mike, however, remembers the 1900s, but not why he went into the kitchen! They explore old-timey art (complete with hyphens!), discover Watty Piper's secret identity, and dissect anthropomorphic trains, even making an "FE" joke, periodically speaking. From page-turn peeves to an SNL parody, the dads keep the conversation on track, even if their research occasionally derails!
Looking for an episode we touched on in this one? How about:
It's Halloween, I'm Turning Green
or something we found on the webs
Mr Mike's Least~Loved Bedtime Stories
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Welcome to Dads on Books, where Mike and David FINALLY hit record and make an episode after 40 minutes of talking about "random things." They immediately forgot everything. (We blame Blockbuster's brain-erasing technology). Rob Reiff started last week's "Little House in the Big Woods" episode accidentally, in his pocket, and has to rewind it like a cassette tape to listen again. Finally touching on this touching book, "Sleeping Cutie," we, as parents, deeply relate to "I'm not tired!" being yelled at bedtime. Mike tries it and feels like it would be great to work on in therapy. Written by Andrea Davis Pinkney with "fun" artwork Brian Pinkney, the dads are lead on an adventure to a jazzy Dreamland nightclub where Cutie and her toys become the band. Aaand... "HeeeEEERE's Cutie!"
Looking for an episode we touched on in this one? Consider one of these fine suggestions:
Little House in the Big Woods
or
The Little Engine That Could
or
The "Loose Ends" Episode (possibly Episode 22, but more likely Episode 88)
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This episode of Dads on Books sees Mike and David finally hit record after a legendary hour-and-a-half pre-show chat! They dive into "Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?", discussing "Cliffnotes" and hilarious plot spoilers like Pa pouring lead bullets. Learn about Laura's supposedly "easy life" with Almanzo, when she marries up. The dads also debate burning wardrobes for fuel, their future as authors in 2042, Mike's passing in 2442 after purchasing YouTube for $25, and the fiscal genius of a triple wedding. All this AND a few musical numbers.
Looking for an episode we touched on in this one? How about:
Little House in the Big Woods
or
Who Was Mike Walker
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This is my boss, Mike & David, we're not millionaires, but we are a heck of 2 guys...
In the latest episode of Dads on Books, we explore the decadence of Fancy Nancy. Nostalgia was on our minds as we careened towards a cliff edge of the Gogos, Hart to Hart, and many other things from the 80s that we say twice. Join us for a tear-filled episode of silliness.
Looking for an episode we touched on in this one? How about:
Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell- Big Words for Little People
or
Louis Sachar- Sideways Stories from Wayside School
and let us not forget the ever popular
Richard Scarry- Cars and Trucks and Things that Go
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