One of the rare instances where the laptop stopped recording us right before the end of our podcast. The important thing is that we were able to fully discuss the book. The sad thing is that we lost our Letters and our Grown-Up Things We Like. Ah well. Next week then. This particular week we take on Crockett Johnson’s best known work (sorry, Carrot Seed) and come up with everything from arboreal semantics to Ursula Nordstrom as a hard knocks dame to . . . well . . . Genesis.

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Show Notes:

– Just to be clear, this is the massive book I pull out for Kate at the beginning of the program:

– What truly was Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings? Behold!

– I’ve seen some apple trees in my time and you, sir, are no apple tree.

– Nine different kinds of clams!

– Kate’s latest desired tattoo.  And for the first time, I completely agree with her on this:

– The porcupine tattoo doesn’t exist. But here are some Harold tattoos that DO exist:

– “On to” vs. “onto”. Which is it?!?

– Here’s Ernie. And I looked it up. Ernie in It’s a Wonderful Life is the cab driver. Ah well.

– I’m going to work in a Ursula Nordstrom letter into every single podcast from here on in. Kate nails her.

– Here is what I do believe is the earliest Harold short created. It. Is. Charming.

– And here is the HBO television show. You will note that everything Harold draws can move. This aligns the new Harold closer to Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings more than anything else:

– Here’s the Glam Rock Opera version. Very catchy.

– And finally, here’s where the book showed up on the Top 100 Picture Books Poll: #16.