Fun Kids Book Worms

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Join Bex from the children's radio station Fun Kids as she meets top authors who tell her about their books and also read us chapters from them. Plus, Bex and friends recommend their favourite kids books of the month. You can listen to Bex on Fun Kids (weekdays from 4pm) on DAB Digital Radio across the UK, on the free Fun Kids app, and online at funkidslive.com Plus, when you become a Fun Kids Podcasts Plus subscriber, you get this show – and 30 others! – ad-free and support the work Fun Kids does in bringing you high-quality, entertaining, and safe content for your family. Find out more at FunKidsLive.com/plus

  • 22 minutes 51 seconds
    LEMONY SNICKET, AF STEADMAN & NICKY SMITH-DALE: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Skandar III & Betty Steady and the Toad Witch

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms!

    To kick things off Bex chatted to Daniel Handler from Team Lemony Snicket all about all about the 25th anniversary edition of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

    Bex then caught up with AF Steadman to chat about the 3rd book in the Skandar series where Skandar and his friends must complete a series of terrifying trials across the Island’s elemental zones.

    Last up on this bumper episode of Book Worms is Nicky Smith-Dale chatting about Betty Steady and the Toad Witch, a story containing fights, friendships!, lasagne-eating snails and slimy villains!

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    17 April 2024, 5:00 am
  • 25 minutes 3 seconds
    JOE WICKS, CLARE BALDING & ELLE MCNICOLL: Keeping happier, The Best Animal Facts & Keedie

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms!

    To kick things off Bex chatted to Joe Wicks all about his new release Fitter, Healthier, Happier where we learn all about our body and minds.

    Bex then caught up with Clare Balding all about her hilarious guide to the animal kingdom where your favourite animals go head to head in Animal All Stars

    Last up on this bumper episode of Book Worms is Elle McNicoll about her new book, Keedie – the highly anticipated prequel to her award-winning debut novel A Kind of Spark

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    3 April 2024, 5:00 am
  • 22 minutes 49 seconds
    DAVID BADDIEL SPECIAL: The Parent Agency's 10th Anniversary

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms!

    On this week's podcast we have a special interview with author, comedian and all-round legend David Baddiel.

    Him and Bex chat all about the 10th anniversary edition of his book The Parent Agency, the plans to move it on stage and perhaps our best this or that yet!  

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    20 March 2024, 6:00 am
  • 32 minutes 12 seconds
    BEX'S WORLD BOOK DAY BONANZA 🌍📖

    Welcome to Fun Kids Book Worms for our World Book Day Special!
    We'll hear from some of the very best and your favourite authors in this bumper special edition of the podcast.

    WHO'S ON THE SHOW TODAY?

    • David Walliams about his 2022 release Space Boy
    • Carrie Hope Fletcher all about 'The Double Trouble Society and the Worst Curse!
    • Author of Kensuke's Kingdom & War Horse Michael Morpurgo who spoke about When Fish Flew and the astounding stories behind it.
    • Clare Balding tells us who you should be dressing up as on the big day
    • Author of the Tracy Beaker series Jacqueline Wilson about The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure!
    • Alison Hammond joins us to chat about the secret history of the UK in Black in Time : The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today where we hear the stories behind the most influential black Britons in History.
    •  Dermot O'Leary all about Wings of Glory!

    All that and much much more on Bex's World Book Day Bonanza

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    6 March 2024, 6:00 am
  • 33 minutes 5 seconds
    HOW THE NEWS WORKS and the ATTACK of the STINK MONSTER!🗞️👾

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms!

    To kick things off Bex chatted to Jane Marlow & Lisa Campbell all about their new release Inside Story: How The News Works where we learn about the work behind the scenes of how our news bulletins really work and how they're put together.

    Bex then caught up with Jenny McLachlan all about STINK: FAIRY VS. WIZARD where we have a super funny diary-style adventure, full of cartoons by the bestselling author of the Land of Roar!

    Next up on this bumper episode of Book Worms is Nadia Shireen who continues with the stink theme and talks about Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster in the wildly funny third book in Nadia Shireen's bestselling and brilliantly anarchic illustrated comedy-adventure series

    To wrap up the episode we speak to Our Farm in the Dales' Nicola Baker talking all about her debut children's book A Whistledown Farm Adventure: Finding Hope, her first book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    21 February 2024, 6:00 am
  • 17 minutes 27 seconds
    Time Travelling PENGUINS & the quest for IMMORTALITY🐧⚔️

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms!

    To kick things off Bex chatted to Sheena Dempsey about her new release Pablo & Splash where we join time-travelling penguins on an unexpected adventure to the time of the dinosaurs.

    Bex also caught up with Siobhan McDermott all about Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm where a 12-year-old girl wins an invitation to train as an apprentice to immortals 

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    7 February 2024, 6:00 am
  • 28 minutes 54 seconds
    A SUPERHERO called INVISADOG and why TIME is more important than you think!

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Stuart Heritage about his new release The ODD Squad: Rise of Invisadog where we meet a team of heroic animal crime-fighters you'll never forget.

    Sam Sedgeman also joined Bex to chat all about about The Clockwork Conspiracy, a locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chases, hidden codes and mind-bending science.

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    24 January 2024, 6:00 am
  • 27 minutes 53 seconds
    Time Travelling with a TORTOISE & Tamzin Merchant's The Troublemakers🐢🪄

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Tamzin Merchant about her brand new book The Troublemakers as we return to the magical world of The Hatmakers in an epic and exciting new adventure on the high seas

    Ross Welford also joined Bex on the first podcast of 2024 to chat all Time Travelling with a Tortoise all about an extraordinary, adventure-packed sequel to his beloved, bestselling debut, Time Travelling with a Hamster.

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    10 January 2024, 6:00 am
  • 49 minutes 54 seconds
    Bex's Best Books of 2023

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms!

    In today's episode to round off 2023, Bex goes through her favourite books of the year month by month and we hear from the authors who wrote them

    That's all on this week's very special episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    27 December 2023, 6:00 am
  • 45 minutes 43 seconds
    Eoin Colfer, The Snow Girl, Beano's latest Boomic & Everything Under The Sun

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex got chatting to Craig Graham, Mike Sterling and Laura Graham from Beano all about their Boomic series and which character the latest installment is focusing on?

    To get you all in the festive mood we're now joined by Indie Book Award winning author Sophie Anderson about her brand new book The Snow Girl, an enchanting story about facing fears and knowing when to let go.

    The international best-selling author Eoin Colfer joins us to continue the festive theme and tells us all about his brand new book Juniper's Chrisrmas, a story about eleven-year-old Juniper Lane who's thrown into a Christmas adventure like no other.

    Our last author is someone a little bit closer to home in Molly Oldfield who's just joined the Fun Kids Podcast Network and joins us to talk about her brand new book Everything Under The Sun, a curious question for every day of the year.

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    13 December 2023, 6:00 am
  • 20 minutes 27 seconds
    The Frost Fair, A Magical Dress & Michael Rosen's Big Dreaming

    Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex got chatting to Natasha Hasting all about her brand new book The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair! The perfect book to welcome the Christmas season in.

    We've got another magical story for you! Robert Tregoning's The Dress in the Window is a tale of a boy who falls in love with a second-hand dress, and it's sure to steal your heart. Robert is here to tell us all about it! 

    Michael Rosen joins us a gives us a reading of his brilliant book, The Big Dreaming! All about the hibernation of bears, perfect for this time of year when bears are preparing for their big sleep!

    That's all on this week's episode of Fun Kids Book Worms

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    29 November 2023, 6:00 am
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