A children's literature podcast all about the stories that shape us - and how the stories that formed us go on to shape the stories we create.
We talk to children's authors, illustrators, bloggers, and book lovers of all sorts about the stories they loved as children (or perhaps, the stories they hated, feared, or were fascinated by!) and how those stories helped to shape their lives. Join us for weekly discussions about books, stories, and their power to change the world.
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/StoryshapedPod
and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyshapedpod/
Contact us on storyshapedpod@gmail.com
Our Irish bookshop partner is Halfway Up the Stairs bookshop in Wicklow: www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
In the UK, check out our storefront on https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclosure: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops.
Theme music composed and performed by Tony Betts
Logo designed by Paul Coomey
Your hosts: children's authors Susan Cahill and Sinéad O'Hart
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A children's literature podcast all about the stories that shape us - and how the stories that formed us go on to shape the stories we create.
We talk to children's authors, illustrators, bloggers, and book lovers of all sorts about the stories they loved as children (or perhaps, the stories they hated, feared, or were fascinated by!) and how those stories helped to shape their lives. Join us for weekly discussions about books, stories, and their power to change the world.
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/StoryshapedPod
and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyshapedpod/
Contact us on storyshapedpod@gmail.com
Our Irish bookshop partner is Halfway Up the Stairs bookshop in Wicklow: www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
In the UK, check out our storefront on https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclosure: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops.
Theme music composed and performed by Tony Betts
Logo designed by Paul Coomey
Your hosts: children's authors Susan Cahill and Sinéad O'Hart
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, we welcome Alastair Chisholm - yes, only the brilliant, prolific, award-winning, award-nominated picturebook and middle grade author - to the podcast, and we hope you'll join us for the journey! Alastair has written about starships lost in space, about characters who can see back through time, about huge mecha-animals powered by human will, and - best of all - about ninja frogs, and that's just to name some of the books in his incredible back catalogue. Come with us as he takes us through the stories that have shaped him, and which continue to shape his world and his work.
Books mentioned in this week's episode include some of Alastair's own:
The Dragon Storm series, illustrated by Eric Deschamps
The Consequence Girl
Orion Lost
Adam-2
I Am Wolf
I Am Raven
And the stories which have shaped him include:
The Silmarillion, by JRR Tolkien
The Grey King, by Susan Cooper
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, by Alan Garner
Charmed Life, by Diana Wynne Jones
Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
Archer's Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones
Asterix, by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (et al)
The Eagle comic, founded by Marcus Morris
2000 AD, created by Kelvin Gosnell, Pat Mills, John Wagner
The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis
The work of Nicholas Fisk
The work of Jan Mark
The work of Isaac Asimov
The work of Robert Heinlein
The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison
The Best of Harry Harrison - short story anthology
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, by Stephen Donaldson
Zenith, by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (Alastair's edition has illustrations by CF Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard)
The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
The work of Sir Terry Pratchett
Legend, by David Gemmell
Master and Commander (series), by Patrick O'Brian
Sword of the Sun, by Sinéad O'Hart
The World Between the Rain, by Susan Cahill
Wren, by Lucy Hope
A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll
Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy, by Dashe Roberts
Bird Boy, by Catherine Bruton
Dungeon Runners, by Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd Stanton
The work of Christopher Edge
Our podcast bookshop in Ireland is Halfway Up the Stairs: www.halfwayupthestairs.ie. You might also like to check out www.kennys.ie for free shipping within the Republic of Ireland!
In the UK, check out our storefront on: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclaimer: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.