Episode Fourteen: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

My Dog Ate My Book Report is a podcast where two weirdo thirty-somethings take turns introducing each other to a formative book from childhood the other has never read to see if the magic has held up!

This episode we read: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The transcript can be found here: Episode Fourteen Transcript

 

Content Warnings: 

Cultural appropriation
Violence against children

 

Covers:

Cover Brandon read back in 199X.
Modern cover

Links to things we mentioned:

Illustration by Alton Raible

“Zilpha Keatley Snyder dies at 87; wrote fantastical children’s books,” Los Angeles Times

Cathlena Martin’s “Role Playing in Children’s Literature: Zilpha Keatley Snyder and The Egypt Game” from the American Journal of Play

What we are reading next!

Next time we have a special guest, Nuance, who has chosen Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

 

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Credits:

 

My Dog ate My Book Report is hosted and produced by Wren and Brandon, and edited by Derrick Valen and Daisy McNamara and Brandon

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