Just Dads Reading Books

We're back with more fawning over the world of Avatar and the words of F.C. Yee. This book is the conclusion (for now?) of Kyoshi's arc and builds a lot off of the first entry in this series. It is violent and complex and tough to say this even qualifies as a kids book. But it's set in a universe that was supposed to be for a kid's TV show, so I don't know what to tell you. We...

Things get a bit heavier today because we're talking about race, American history, slavery, and American education. We're a couple of dumb white dads that had the opportunity to read something that taught us something we probably should have learned more about 20 years ago. Hopefully our own stupidity is something we can help our daughters to avoid... If you want to chat with us and recomm...

Okay, for this final part of our podcast launch we cheated a little bit. We both read the first Avatar novel a year or so ago but it's so good we wanted to check it out again in the context of this show. And it did not disappoint the second time. If you don't know much about the Avatar universe, hopefully this episode still serves as rationale for why all the cool kids are out there readin...

Part two of our podcast launch is a total surprise to us! Neither of us had really heard of Timmy Failure (oh except for the part where Matt worked on the Disney adaptation of it for like a day) and it's humor and heart completely took us by surprise. Hopefully your kid likes references to Bob Dylan as much as you do... If you want to chat with us and recommend books or tell us your reaction t...

This series premiere features E.J. Sanders and Matt Martens grappling with the first entry in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books. What began as an intent to possibly check out the whole series instantly changes the scope of this podcast as they realize maybe they don't think the PJ books are that cool? This isn't a show about being negative, but we are looking for the books we want to...