Dads on Books
by Michael Walker & David Patrick
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The Soup Bone, or No Bones about it. It's Halloween!
The Soup Bone, or No Bones about it. It's Halloween!
About this podcast
Dads on Books is a podcast hosted by David Patrick and Mike Walker. The 2 dads discuss books, focusing on those read by their children and sometimes revisiting titles from their own childhoods. The podcast showcases their personal connections to the books and how their perspectives have changed as parents.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 78 episodes
- The Soup Bone, or No Bones about it. It's Halloween! · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 77Mike and David actually do a Halloween episode on Halloween! After doing a Halloween episode in July of last year and not doing a Halloween episode on Halloween the last year…
- From the Crypt: It’s Halloween I’m Turning Green by Dan Gutman, illustrated by Jim Paillot · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 76Mike and David recorded this back in July 2025 a perfect month to do a Halloween episode. Now that it’s actually Halloween soon we decided to let you listen again. And since we…
- Clifford the Big Red Dog · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 75Mike checks in, live from a hotel room in Boston. David holds down the home studio. They dive into the 1963 picture book classic, Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell. The…
- Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 74This week we go way way back. This classic book is older than Mike. This gritty book is older than David. This shiny new book almost as old as David’s parents! It’s older than…
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 73The Dads return to a classic If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff, Illustrated by Felicia Bond. Is it really a classic? It was written after Mike and David were kids…
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 72This just in. It's another classic Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, illustrated by Ron Barrett. The Dads visit the town of Chewandswallow. Your read that…
- Author Friend Victoria Kann! The Wrath Of Kann Too · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 71We're back... with part two of our wonderful conversation with Victoria Kann, author of the newly released Snickerdoodle and the absolute classically classic, Pinkalicious, as…
- Featuring Victoria Kann: Snickerdoodle and the Case of Victoria's Awry April Fools Joke, Part 1 · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 70We have yet another author guest! It’s Victoria Kann, yes, she of Pinkalicious fame! We talk about the Pinkalicious origin story (spoiler alert: April Fools!) and how she came up…
- Miss Nelson is Missing, or Someone should eat those horrible children · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 68It’s Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard, illustrated by James Marshall and Mike and David take a trip back to their childhood, OK not their childhood but at least the era of…
- The Secret Coders or How I Learned to Love a Teeny Eni Robot Turtle · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 67It’s only our second graphic novel, and boy was it graphic! And novel. And second! It’s The Secret Coders written by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Mike Holmes, the first in a…
- “I Want my Hat Back” by Jon Klassen, or the bear with a naked head complex · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 66In this episode, Mike and David decided to go to another B2 BB episode, a.k.a. Back to Board Books with I Want my Hat Back by Jon Klassen. It’s a cute, fun book and David figured…
- Shrek! · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 65Did you know that Shrek! was based on a book called Shrek!? Neither did we. And not just any book, but a book called Shrek! And Mike was all, "we totally have to read this book…
- I need a NEW BUTT One that won’t make me sick one that won’t make me crash my car…or The Uncanny Fanny · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 64In a very special back to school episode, the Dads discuss I Need a NEW BUTT! (Originally published in the U. K. as I Need a New Bum, but America!) by Dawn McMillan. Probably not…
- Amelia Bedilia and the Baby, aka Tarnation! That was Plum Fun! · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 63It’s David’s first time to read the world-famous series, Amelia Bedelia! And what better place to start than Amelia Bedelia and the Baby! aka Tarnation! That was Plum Fun! Mike…
- Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, or I want my 2 D'Aulaires · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 62David and Mike enter the world of Greek mythology...but first.. December 1978. Dallas, Texas. David's French grandmother, Tia (which is Spanish for aunt, but that's what they…
- Lisa, part due: the Wrath of Crayons · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 61Couldn’t wait for part two with illustrator/author Lisa Desimini? Now you don’t have to. Lisa, Mike, and David continue their conversation with some rainy weather, 64 (or…
- Lisa Desimini like “Yosemite”: a fantastic, fun (funtastic?) conversation with the fantastical illustrator/author · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 60It’s time for another guest! An author? Sort of. Another daughter? Yes, but not ours’s. It’s Illustrator/author Lisa Desimini!!! I mean-ie, we talk about books so why not have…
- What is the Declaration of Independence? Or Indy’s Pension? · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 59Indy’s Pension? Hey, a Raider of the Lost Ark deserves to retire in comfort. Aaaaand in a very special July 4 episode, the Dads celebrate the 250th birthday of our great nation…
- Monsters, Don't Eat Broccoli, or Mommy · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 58If this is it Monsters, don't eat broccoli. The Dads judge a book by its cover: we liked it. So there. Mike did a slight rewrite. He took some liberties with the words nothing…
- A Juneteenth Jamboree or How We Heard We Were Free!!! Yippee! · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 58It’s the Dads’ first annual “Hey, let’s do a Juneteenth book” book. Or, as Mike put it, “If the world has a day, then we should read a book about it” book. That’s a whole lot of…
