We were privileged today to speak to the authors of the brilliant essay anthology, Beyond the Secret Garden, which is a vital critique of the current state of children's literature and its inclusivity problem. Dr Chetty and Prof Sands-O'Connor have written for many years over at Books for Keeps around these vital issues, and today they bring us through the importance of decolonising the children's literature canon - while also giving us an insight into their own Storyshaped lives, and what stories led them to the work they do today.
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Stories mentioned in this week's episode include:
The Good Immigrant, ed. Nikesh Shukla
Sesame Street
Roy of the Rovers football comic
The work of JD Salinger and Jack Kerouac
Dr Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting
The Wizard of Oz (movie version)
Mythologies, by Roland Barthes
Elmer, by David McKee
Tusk Tusk, by David McKee
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
The work of Charles Dickens
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Sight and Sound magazine
The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureishi
The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
Freud in Oz, by Kenneth Kidd
James, by Percival Everett
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