#15: Hot Pterodactyls Playing Baseball

Eric and Kelly discuss the ways graphic novels and YA have excellent crossover appeal, consider why we don’t see enough animals in YA fiction, and round out the show talking about baseball (and books, obviously).


Sponsored by Rebel With A Cupcake by Anna Mainwaring from KCP Loft and Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne.


Show notes:


Reading Emergency Contact by Mary HK Choi
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
Behind The Cover Design of The Wicker King
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll
Monster by Walter Dean Myers and Guy A. Sims
Giant Days by Non Pratt
Runaways by Christopher Golden
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Wire and Nerve by Marissa Meyer
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Uglies: Shay’s Story by Scott Westerfeld
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Batman by Marie Lu
Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds
Wonder Woman by Leigh Bardugo
Squirrel Girl by Shannon and Dean Hale
Lumberjanes by Mariko Tamaki
Lois Lane: Fallout by Gwenda Bond
DC's new line of YA and Middle Grade comics
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
North of Happy by Adi Alsaid
Relish by Lucy Knisley
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
March by John Lewis
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
Where are the well-rounded animal characters?
Rotten by Michael Northrop
Your Robot Dog Will Die by Arin Greenwood
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri
The New Guy and Other Senior Year Distractions by Amy Spalding
Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend by Alan Cumyn
See No Color by Shannon Gibney
A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White
Heart of a Champion, Painting the Black, and High Heat by Carl Deuker
Game Seven by Paul Volponi
Center Field by Robert Lipsyte
Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally
The Comeback Season by Jennifer E. Smith (and yes, Kelly knows what she said about Wrigley Field is wrong -- its history of NOT being named after a corporation is a big deal)
The historic Cubs win ESPN piece