The highs and lows of the podcast’s first year.

Lows:

Highs:

Film – Bolt (full review in episode 4) and Up (episode 14) top our list – we’re still bickering over the merits of The Princess and the Frog (episode 22).

Art – Art Trolley at Tate Britain. Full review on location review in episode 25.

Books – Our top books of the year (although given how bad Jennifer is at maths, her year is a full 28 months long…) Leon and the Place Between (ep 8), Greek Beasts and Heroes (ep 22), The Great Dog Bottom Swap (ep 16), Don’t Want to Go (ep 23) and Everybody Was a Baby Once.

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How to Train your Dragon and When the Dragons Came.  

The Quick Review

How to Train Your Dragon – Or, as we like to think of it: “Avatar for Young Adults”. Brilliant film, go and see it in the cinema to get the full 3D effect. Age 6+.

When the Dragons Came –  Clever new picture book for age 3+ with subtle themes of immigration and tolerance explored through a child-friendly metaphor. Someone should send Nick Griffin a copy.

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer – Legal thriller writer John Grisham has announced he will pen a kids’ book, and Penguin has posted the first chapter online. As much as we wanted to hate it, we found ourselves quite intrigued with Theo Boone. We’re hoping the drama will continue as Theo really gets stuck into a case, working 22-hour days and never communicating with his family except through his Blackberry.

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