In the Reading Corner

By Nikki Gamble

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In the Reading Corner is created by Just Imagine for anyone interested in children's books and reading. It is hosted by Nikki Gamble, author of Exploring Children's Literature and co-author of Guiding Readers. Listening to this podcast, you will learn about the latest children's books, learn more about the creative processes of writing and illustrating, discover different viewpoints about topical issues and more. Whether you are a teacher, librarian, parent, bookseller, publisher, writer or illustrator, this podcast is made with love for you.


Episode Date
JonArno Lawson: Wise Up!! Wise Down!
May 24, 2025
Brian Bilston: Let Sleeping Cats Lie
May 20, 2025
Jane Newbery - CLiPPA shortlisted poet
May 03, 2025
Jenny Downham and Louis Hill: Let the Light In
Jan 26, 2025
The Pinchers with Anders Sparring and Per Gustavsson
Oct 12, 2024
Jeremy Strong: Fox Goes North
Oct 10, 2024
Elle McNicoll: Keedie
Jun 22, 2024
Clare Pollard: The Untameables
May 11, 2024
Jodie Lancet-Grant: The Wild West Twins
May 10, 2024
Lucy Strange: The Island at the Edge of Night
May 06, 2024
Maya Wei-Haas: What a Rock Can Reveal
May 04, 2024
Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent
Dec 21, 2023
Peter Brown - Running wild with robots
Oct 08, 2023
We've Got This! Reflections on empathy with Rashmi Siredeshpande and Miranda McKearney
Oct 04, 2023
Pippa Funnell
Sep 15, 2023
Roland Chambers - The Adventures of Billy Shaman
Sep 05, 2023
Jo Ellen Bogart and Maja Kastelic
Aug 22, 2023
David Wolstencroft - The Magic Hour
Jun 05, 2023
Mark Bradley - Bumble and Snug
May 27, 2023
Jasmine Richards
Apr 09, 2023
Kwame Alexander - The Door of No Return
Apr 05, 2023
Mariajo Illustrajo - Lost
Mar 24, 2023
Shirley Marr - All Four Quarters of the Moon
Mar 14, 2023
Deborah Ellis - One More Mountain
Mar 05, 2023
Abi Elphinstone - Saving Neverland
Feb 07, 2023
Peter Lantos: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die
Jan 15, 2023
Berlie Doherty: The Haunted Hills
Dec 28, 2022
Emily Gravett - on picture books
Dec 23, 2022
Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott - All the Pieces of Me
Dec 04, 2022
Kelly Yang - a Chinese American Experience
Dec 03, 2022
David Atherton - Baking with Children
Dec 02, 2022
Peter Kalu - One Drop
Nov 29, 2022
Kandace Chimbiri - The Story of Britain's Black Airmen
Nov 28, 2022
Malcolm Duffy - Read Between the Lies
Nov 27, 2022
Greg Jenner - You Are History
Nov 27, 2022
Sarah Roberts - When Somebody Woke Wilson
Nov 08, 2022
Nyanda Foday and Joelle Avalino
Nov 08, 2022
Juliette Forrest - The Mountain Rescue Dog
Nov 08, 2022
The Wainwright Prize
Oct 23, 2022
Sophie McKenzie - Truth or Dare
Oct 23, 2022
Philip Ardagh and Ben Mantle
Oct 23, 2022
A M Dassu - Fight Back
Oct 23, 2022
Naomi Walmsley - Live Like a Hunter Gatherer
Oct 02, 2022
Frances Hardinge - Unraveller
Oct 02, 2022
Petr Horacek - A Best Friend for Bear
Sep 30, 2022
SF Said - Tyger
Sep 30, 2022
Angela Sangma - Mountains and Rivers
Sep 29, 2022
Manon Steffan Ros - The Blue Book of Nebo
Sep 26, 2022
Ian Livingstone - Fighting Fantasy
Sep 26, 2022
Rashmi Sirdeshpande - Dadaji's Paintbrush
Sep 26, 2022
Patrice Lawrence - The Elemental Detectives
Sep 01, 2022
Donna and Vikesh Amey Bhatt: Lands of Belonging
Aug 13, 2022
James Dixon - The Billow Maiden
Aug 12, 2022
Ewa Jozefkowicz - The Dragon in the Bookshop
Aug 07, 2022
Nicolette Jones - Writes of Passage
Aug 03, 2022
Joanthan Tulloch - Cuckoo Summer
Aug 02, 2022
Steve Cole - Stitched Up
Aug 01, 2022
Craig Caudill - The Secret Signs of Nature
Jul 10, 2022
Lauren Wolk - My Own Lightning
Jul 10, 2022
Atinuke - Too Small Tola Gets Tough
Jul 10, 2022
Jon Arno Lawson - A Day for Sandcastles
Jun 23, 2022
Phil Earle - While the Storm Rages
Jun 23, 2022
Polly Dunbar - Ready for Spaghetti
Jun 19, 2022
Jarvis - The Boy With Flowers in His Hair
Jun 12, 2022
Jennifer Bell - Legendarium
Jun 12, 2022
Sophie Anderson - The Thief Who Sang Storms
Jun 12, 2022
Rich Knight - If I Ran the Country
Jun 11, 2022
Justin Anderson - Narwhal the Arctic Unicorn
Jun 05, 2022
Anthony Horowitz - Where Seagulls Dare
Jun 05, 2022
Jim Smith - Total Winner
May 23, 2022
Justyn Edwards - The Great Fox Illusion
May 23, 2022
Sharna Jackson - The Good Turn
May 21, 2022
Mini Grey: The Greatest Show on Earth
May 11, 2022
Elizabeth Uviebinene - The Offline Diaries
May 02, 2022
Nicola Davies and Jenni Desmond
Apr 20, 2022
Annaliese Avery - The World of Nightsilver
Apr 13, 2022
Lucy Hawking - Princess Olivia Investigates
Apr 07, 2022
Jennifer Killick - Dread Wood
Apr 06, 2022
Katie Cotton - The Secret of Splint Hall
Apr 05, 2022
Lissa Evans - Wished
Apr 04, 2022
Tony Bradman - Viking Boy The Real Story
Mar 27, 2022
Emma Chichester Clark - Mister Toots
Mar 19, 2022
Lee Newbery - The Last Firefox
Mar 19, 2022
Kate di Camillo - The Beatryce Prophecy
Mar 18, 2022
Discover Undiscovered Voices
Mar 17, 2022
Catherine Rayner - My Pet Goldfish
Mar 12, 2022
Natasha Farrant - The Girl Who Talked to Trees
Mar 12, 2022
William Sieghart - Everyone Sang
Mar 06, 2022
Paul Jennings - a writing life
Mar 06, 2022
Tamzin Merchant - The Mapmakers
Mar 06, 2022
Gill Lewis - A Dog Named Pup
Mar 04, 2022
Anne Fine - Shades of Scarlet
Mar 04, 2022
Sam Copeland - Greta and the Ghost Hunters
Mar 04, 2022
Sarah Ardizzone - Open Up the World with Translated Books
Feb 21, 2022
Eoin McLaughlin - I Am NOT an Octopus
Feb 19, 2022
Lisette Auton - The Secret of Haven Point
Feb 19, 2022
Lisa Thompson - The Rollercoaster Boy
Feb 19, 2022
Roma Agrawal - How Was That Built?
Feb 18, 2022
Andrew Pettie - When Looks Matter
Feb 10, 2022
Katherine Webber - The Revelry
Feb 10, 2022
The Fan Brothers
Feb 06, 2022
David Olusoga: Black British History
Feb 04, 2022
Alexis Caught - Queer Up
Feb 02, 2022
Louie Stowell: Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good
Feb 02, 2022
Serena Patel - Anisha Accidental Detective
Jan 15, 2022
Simon James Green: Sleepover Take Over
Jan 14, 2022
Diana Mayo
Jan 08, 2022
Jen Carney: The Diary of B.U.G.
Jan 07, 2022
Liz Pichon - Celebrating 10 Years of Tom Gates
Jan 04, 2022
Padraig Kenny - The Monsters and Shadows of Rookhaven
Dec 11, 2021
When Shadows Fall
Dec 10, 2021
Michael Mann- Ghostcloud
Dec 01, 2021
Margaret Bateson-Hill and Karin Littlewood: Leah's Star
Nov 27, 2021
Chris Naylor Ballesteros - The Tiny Reindeer
Nov 27, 2021
Richard Lambert - Shadow Town
Nov 21, 2021
Joanna Nadin - No Man's Land
Nov 21, 2021
Flora Delargy - Rescuing Titanic
Nov 15, 2021
Kieran Larwood - The Five Realms
Nov 15, 2021
Nick Lake and Emily Gravett - Locked Out Lily
Nov 14, 2021
Yaba Badoe: Lionheart Girl
Nov 13, 2021
Lisa Fuller - Ghost Bird
Nov 13, 2021
Michael Rosen - Sticky McStickstick
Nov 06, 2021
Olivia Lomenech Gill - Medusa
Nov 06, 2021
Alexandra Page and Stef Murphy: The Fire Fox
Nov 06, 2021
Sophie Kirtley: The Way to Impossible Island
Nov 05, 2021
Owen Davey - All About Animals
Nov 04, 2021
Andrea Beaty and David Roberts - The Questioneers
Nov 04, 2021
Cornelia Funke: The Aurelia Curse
Oct 31, 2021
Philip Womack - Wildlord
Oct 28, 2021
Jen Campbell - The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers
Oct 27, 2021
Yvette Fielding: The House in the Woods
Oct 27, 2021
Oliver Jeffers - There's a Ghost in This House
Oct 23, 2021
Phil Hickes- The Haunting of Aveline Jones
Oct 22, 2021
Frances Durkin: The Histronauts
Oct 09, 2021
William Grill - Bandoola:the great elephant rescue
Oct 07, 2021
Dr Nick Crumpton: Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong
Oct 06, 2021
Rob and Tom Sears:The Biggest Footprint
Oct 01, 2021
Alastair Chisholm: Adam-2
Sep 27, 2021
M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman :Adventures on Trains
Sep 25, 2021
Chella Quint - Own Your Period
Sep 25, 2021
Flavia Drago - winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize 2021
Sep 22, 2021
Yasmin Abdel-Magied: Listen, Layla
Sep 18, 2021
Sara Pennypacker: Pax the Journey Home
Sep 18, 2021
Rob Biddulph: Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City
Sep 16, 2021
Chris Thorogood - When Plants Took Over the Planet
Sep 11, 2021
Samuel Langley-Swain and Monika Singh Gantora introduce Owlet Press
Sep 09, 2021
Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston
Sep 06, 2021
Pam Smy - The Hideaway
Sep 04, 2021
Victoria Hislop - Maria's Island
Aug 19, 2021
Peter Frankopan - The Silk Road
Aug 17, 2021
Naomi Gibson: Every Line of You
Aug 15, 2021
Swapna Haddow: 1947, Torn Apart
Aug 11, 2021
Jeffrey Boakye - Musical Truth
Aug 07, 2021
Ross Montgomery - Ten Delicious Teachers
Aug 04, 2021
Dirk Reinhardt and Rachel Ward
Aug 02, 2021
Linda Newbery - This Book is Cruelty Free
Jul 31, 2021
Struan Murray - Branford Boase winner 2021
Jul 30, 2021
Alom Shaha: The pleasures of discovering science and making machines
Jul 27, 2021
Michelle Paver - Skin Taker
Jul 26, 2021
Peter Bently - The King's Birthday Suit
Jul 26, 2021
Sally Gardner and Lydia Corry: The Tindims, Borrowers for the 21st Century
Jul 15, 2021
Pippa Curnick - Indigo Wilde
Jul 09, 2021
Polly Ho-Yen - How I Saved the World in a Week
Jul 07, 2021
Maisie Chan - Tiger Warriors
Jul 06, 2021
Nicola Morgan - Be Resilient
Jul 02, 2021
Dominic Sandbrook - Adventures in History
Jul 01, 2021
David Ouimet - I Get Loud
Jun 30, 2021
A M Howell - Mystery of the Night Watchers
Jun 29, 2021
Pooja Puri - madcap adventures with inventions, time travel and dinosaurs
Jun 27, 2021
Lauren St John - Wave Riders
Jun 20, 2021
Marcia Williams - exploring feelings
Jun 20, 2021
Hilary McKay - The Swallow's Flight
Jun 20, 2021
Jenny Pearson - The Incredible Record Smashers
Jun 20, 2021
Ewa Jozefkowicz - The Cooking Club Detectives
Jun 20, 2021
Susie Bower - The Three Impossibles
Jun 19, 2021
M G Leonard - Twitch
Jun 13, 2021
Brian Conaghan - Cardboard Cowboys
Jun 11, 2021
Jodie Lancet-Grant and Lydia Corry - The Pirate Mums
Jun 11, 2021
Martin Jenkins - a window into wildlife worlds
Jun 11, 2021
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock - Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
Jun 11, 2021
Tim Hopgood
Jun 09, 2021
Sam Thompson - Wolfstongue
May 30, 2021
Ben Garrod and the Creativity of Extinction
May 22, 2021
Jason Cockroft - We Were Wolves
May 21, 2021
David Litchfield - let there be light
May 16, 2021
Swapna Haddow and Dapo Adeola - characterful collaboration
May 16, 2021
Patience Agbabi - The Time Thief
May 11, 2021
Jo Bowers and Simon Fisher the Tir na n-Og (English Language) Award
May 07, 2021
Dr Jess Wade and Melissa Castrillon - the art and science of Nano
May 02, 2021
Damien Love - Monstrous Devices
May 02, 2021
Graham Carter: Let There Be Light
Apr 18, 2021
John Klassen: The Rock From the Sky
Apr 17, 2021
Chris Haughton - Maybe
Apr 16, 2021
Ben Mantle: Frog, Toad and a bus full of Bunnies
Apr 14, 2021
Nicola Skinner looking Starboard
Apr 03, 2021
David Almond - Bone Music
Apr 01, 2021
Elle McNicoll
Mar 31, 2021
Jonathan Stroud - The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
Mar 26, 2021
Raymond Antrobus - Can Bears Ski?
Mar 23, 2021
Jeanne Willis - a writer of many shades and tones
Mar 20, 2021
Annelise Gray - Peril in Imperial Rome
Mar 15, 2021
Laura Wood - standing up for rebels
Mar 08, 2021
Maz Evans - watch out Bond, there's a new spy on the block
Mar 03, 2021
Hannah Gold - The Last Bear
Feb 25, 2021
Neal Shusterman - Game Changer
Feb 22, 2021
Tom Percival - making a difference
Feb 20, 2021
James Carter Weird, Wild and Wonderful
Feb 08, 2021
Garry Parsons - reflecting family life in all its diversity
Feb 06, 2021
Sita Bramachari - a writer's secrets set sail
Feb 05, 2021
Adam Baron - This Wonderful Thing
Jan 30, 2021
Helen Rutter - The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
Jan 27, 2021
Liz Kessler talks about When the World Was Ours
Jan 20, 2021
Christopher Edge - Space Oddity: the influence of Close Encounters and Bowie
Jan 14, 2021
Lindsay Galvin on finding the perfect place for dragons
Jan 08, 2021
Professor Hakim Adi - on the history of African and Caribbean Communities in Britain
Jan 02, 2021
Armin Greder - creating books about the way the world is, not the way it should be.
Dec 30, 2020
Steve Cole - publishing Doctor Who
Dec 27, 2020
Chris Wormell - on illustrating Northern Lights
Dec 22, 2020
Lucy Strange - The Ghost of Gosswater
Dec 19, 2020
Chris Van Allsburg - a journey from sculpture to illustration
Dec 16, 2020
A M Dassu - a Syrian story
Dec 06, 2020
Matt Goodfellow - Bright Bursts of Colour
Dec 05, 2020
Ross Montgomery - The Midnight Guardians
Nov 29, 2020
Sally Nicholls talks about The Silent Stars Go By
Nov 28, 2020
Catherine Bruton - Dickens for the 21st Century
Nov 16, 2020
Catherine Fisher - Clockwork Crows and Midnight Swans
Nov 15, 2020
Manjeet Mann - Run Rebel
Nov 12, 2020
Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett -challenging gendered fairy tales
Nov 08, 2020
Benjamin Zephaniah - Windrush Child
Nov 05, 2020
David Long - the history of machines or human stories?
Nov 04, 2020
Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors
Oct 31, 2020
Christopher Lloyd - why publish a print based encyclopedia in the digital age?
Oct 29, 2020
Robin Scott-Elliot - The Acrobats of Agra
Oct 18, 2020
Amy Wilson - frost, faeries and missing fathers
Oct 08, 2020
Finbar Hawkins - Witch
Oct 03, 2020
Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher - a perfect partnership
Sep 29, 2020
Tom Palmer - After the War
Sep 25, 2020
Tania Unsworth - entranced by tigers
Sep 22, 2020
Dom Conlon speaking of hares and the moon
Sep 20, 2020
Eve McDonnell - mudlarking leads to Elsetime
Sep 17, 2020
Julia Gray- inspired by Ada Lovelace
Sep 12, 2020
Thomas Harding - The House by the Lake
Sep 03, 2020
Jasbinder Bilan - an alternative Secret Garden
Aug 30, 2020
Anna Fargher inspired by family history
Aug 14, 2020
Joseph Coelho - The Girl Who Became a Tree
Aug 08, 2020
Lucy Cuthew - Blood Moon
Jul 25, 2020
Julia Green - The Children of Swallow Fell
Jul 14, 2020
Elen Caldecott - The Short Knife
Jul 01, 2020
Sam Hutchinson on Critical Literacy publications
Jun 28, 2020
Patrick Skipworth - exploring borrowed words
Jun 20, 2020
Patrick Ness - Burn
Jun 03, 2020
Beverley Birch - the Song Beneath
May 02, 2020
David Wiesner - wordless wizard
Mar 15, 2020
Elizabeth Laird - writing the Middle East
Mar 02, 2020
Cerrie Burnell - freedom on the ice
Mar 01, 2020
Vashti Hardy - expert world builder
Feb 26, 2020
Anna James - book wanderer
Jan 17, 2020
Michael Rosen talks about The Missing
Jan 13, 2020
Peter Bunzl bringing Cogheart to a close
Jan 07, 2020
Jenny McLachlan - portal to The Land of Roar
Jan 03, 2020
Ross Welford - the magic of writing science fiction
Dec 31, 2019
Katharine Orton - inspired by frozen worlds
Dec 29, 2019
Tim Marshall - geopolitics for children
Dec 27, 2019
Marcus Sedgwick - Snowflake AZ
Nov 25, 2019
Rose Robbins - a voice for autisim
Nov 16, 2019
Kwame Alexander - choosing who you want to be
Nov 02, 2019
Piers Torday - inpsired by C S Lewis
Oct 27, 2019
Chitra Soundar - rooted in Indian folklore
Oct 23, 2019
Sue Cheung - Chinglish
Oct 13, 2019
Chris Vick - inspired by the sea
Sep 27, 2019
Nadine Wild-Palmer - The Tunnels Below
Sep 18, 2019
Andy Stanton - a seriously funny interview
Sep 06, 2019
David McKee - a life in illustration
Aug 26, 2019
Dan Smith - the Vikings are coming
Aug 24, 2019
Dean Atta - The Black Flamingo
Aug 06, 2019
Zanib Mian - introducing the world of Omar
Jun 28, 2019
Rebecca Stevens - Lily and the Rockets
Jun 24, 2019
Abi Elphinstone - Rumblestar
Jun 21, 2019
Kirsty Applebaum - The Middler
Jun 16, 2019
Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola - Look Up!
Jun 12, 2019
Christopher Edge experiment with time
Jun 07, 2019
Michael Rosen on reading classic books
Jun 05, 2019
Michelle Harrison - A Pinch of Magic
May 31, 2019
Gill Lewis - The Closest Thing to Flying
May 30, 2019
Laura Carlin - the way of the artist
May 10, 2019
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Reading Aloud
Apr 30, 2019
Jessica Love - Julian is a Mermaid
Apr 16, 2019
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Ghost Boys
Apr 04, 2019
Janina Ramirez - unravelling Viking mysteries
Mar 27, 2019
Rob Biddulph - an eye for design
Jan 09, 2019
Philip Reeve - fascination with trains.
Jan 06, 2019
Dianne Hofmeyr - writing The Glassmaker's Daughter
Jan 06, 2019
Benji Davies - the animator in the illustrator
Jan 04, 2019
Karl Nova - from Hip Hop to Poetry
Jan 04, 2019
David Litchfield - making picturebooks.
Jan 04, 2019
Gareth P Jones - hitting the funny bone
Nov 20, 2018
Yuval Zommer - illustrating the natural world
Nov 19, 2018
Rachel Rooney - A Kid in My Class
Nov 02, 2018
Jason Reynolds - Long Way Down
Oct 01, 2018
Jane Ray - illustrating The Glassmaker's Daughter
Sep 27, 2018
Lucy Worsley - historical fiction for children
Sep 27, 2018
Christopher Corr - The Great Race
May 10, 2018
Geraldine McCaughrean - Where the World Ends
Apr 27, 2018
Abi Elphinstone - Sky Song
Apr 11, 2018
Andrea Pippins - Young Gifted and Black
Mar 19, 2018
Sally Nicholls - Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Feb 08, 2018
Anthony Browne - celebrating 50 books
Dec 10, 2017
James Mayhew - Mrs Noah's Pockets
Dec 08, 2017
Kate diCamillo - Raymie Nightingale
Oct 28, 2017