Podcast appearances and mentions of Ralph S Mouse

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The literary world lost another giant when Beverly Cleary died a couple of weeks before her 105th birthday. Listen in as we discuss her enduring legacy, some of the surprise books we didn't realize she wrote, and a whole lot more. A selection of Beverly Cleary's books mentioned in this episode Henry Huggins Ralph S. Mouse Ramona & Beezus But really, all her books are delightful. A couple of other books we discuss The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman Undiscovered Country Vol. 2 by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule Sharing and supporting the show Leave a five-star rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to the show. Give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram at @MalContentsPod. Be sure to use the Amazon affiliate links above to help us out. Interested in sponsoring Table of (mal)Contents? Let’s talk via email or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.

Strap on your motorcycle helmets and get ready to take an adventure with Ralph S. Mouse! On Episode 129, Alli and her guest discuss Beverly Cleary's 1965 middle grade novel The Mouse and the Motorcycle. They chat about mice in kid lit and do an extensive compare and contrast between Ralph and Stuart Little. They talk about the fun of stories that take place in a hotel setting and the challenges of discussing nostalgia. They consider The Mouse and the Motorcycle as a fantasy story and the book's more gendered elements… and so much more! Anand Kalra is the founding director of Uncaged Librarian Arts & Information, which produced Octavia of Earth, the documusical inspired by the life of sci-fi luminary Octavia E. Butler. Follow along on Instagram (@uncagedlibrarian) and Facebook.

In this episode we have some of our recurring episodes, This Date in History, Stupid People, and we have an update on the saga of Ralph S. Mouse and how he continues to vex me in his avoidance of traps and poisons. Today's main segment is one that I think many parents across the nation can relate to and that is the problems that Distance Learning or Homeschooling may present. We examine some of the frustrations that my friends are now encountering as it pertains to educating their kiddos. We address everything from the scheduling issues that half & half schooling present and we look at a few of the various online based learning platforms that students, parents and teachers must use on a daily basis. Music Credits: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (Intro) "Gothamlicious" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) ( Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (This Date In History) Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (Parade of Idiots) Everything You Wanted By Dan Lebowitz (Exit) Hickory Hollow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5706-del-rio-bravo License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (Bonus Story)

Music Credits: Everything You Wanted By Dan Lebowitz Backyard BBQ Well folks thank you for checking out Episode 3. In this show we talk about A LOT of things from the Beirut Boom Boom, to Ralph S. Mouse of "Runaway Ralph" and "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" fame. We also talk about truck eating sharks in Enid, Oklahoma and the lack of Pre-Colombian history education in schools. We even talk a little about music and a lot about history. And if history isn't your thing, well we even talk about movies and their sequels, again. So click on in and give this one a listen. Links for One Hit Wonders: The Israelites Desmond Dekker and the Aces – 1968 https://youtu.be/mxtfdH3-TQ4 In The Summertime – Mungo Jerry -1970 https://youtu.be/wvUQcnfwUUM Come on Eileen 1982- Dexy's Midnight Runners https://youtu.be/O_i9t7h8AgY Link to photos of Enid's Shark Bridge http://bridgeshark.com/ Link for Heavener Runestone https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/heavener-runestone https://youtu.be/s3YTfhJmh1I - 536 AD, The Worst Year Ever

We have our first mother and son guests in this episode that we recorded just before Mother's Day! Rachel reviews one of her favorite books from when she was a kid... and her son Cody reviews one of his current favorite series. PS If we sound a little muffled, it's because we were wearing masks.

Do you want to raise your children to be readers? In this episode we are going to dive into encouragement and resources for creating a culture of reading in your home - for kids and mom! Listen to the Podcast: You can find important links & info below. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links & Resources: Book links by reading ages mentioned: Reading to your baby & toddlers: Board books and visually pleasing books (The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Llama Llama Red Pajama, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, The Little Engine That Could, etc) The early reader: This is the 5-8 range. With emerging readers of my own, I know that this is a long process. Read aloud ALL the time during this age. The Usborne My First Reading Library Our very early reader books: Dash Into Learning More suggestions: Ralph S. Mouse, The Ramona Books, Henry and Ribsy, The Magic TreeHouse Books) The Middle grade reader: Ages 8 and up. Let them choose what interests them. Help guide them but let them explore worlds and ideas! Keep reading aloud at these ages. (The Redwall series, How to Train Your Dragon book series, etc.) Your Teen Reader: Keep an eye out for books labeled YA. You will still want to keep a close eye on what they are reading while also letting them explore! Help them explore reading outside their school requirements. As adults: Do the same thing!! Find the books that make you excited and don't want to put the book down...and ditch the others. Especially as busy moms, life is TOO short!! Links: Our homeschooling picks for this year (and how to instill a love of learning) – Hf #239 Get TWO WEEKS of free meal plans from PrepDish! PrepDish.com/Homemaking Resources for learning more about morning basket time: Your Morning Basket Podcast with Pam Barnhill – an entire podcast dedicated to this topic! How We Homeschool – Morning Time – by Read-Aloud Revival Simple Morning Time Plans – by Read-Aloud Revival Books to recommend: How to Raise a Reader by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo The Read Aloud Family by Sarah MacKenzie Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson Honey for a Child's Heart By Gladys Hunt Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Family Handbook - New 8th edition Sources for books by age: SonLight Sources for books by age: (many are preprints of old classics) The Good and the Beautiful Library Meal Planning Help for Eating Healthy: I am really excited to share with you the sponsor of today’s podcast episode: PrepDish! If you ever feel like you wish you had a little help in your meal planning, then I highly encourage you to check out PrepDish. They offer gluten-free meal plans and paleo meal plans. But you don’t have to eat a gluten-free or paleo diet in order to take advantage of all that PrepDish has to offer! In fact, almost half of their customers don’t eat those diets. The meals are healthy and non-processed and work well for anyone who is trying to eat a healthy diet. And PrepDish is offering a super special TWO week free trail when you sign up through this link (how awesome!!) When you sign up, you’ll receive an email every week with a grocery list and instructions for prepping your meals ahead of time. After only 1-3 hours of prepping on the weekend, you’ll have all of your meals ready for the entire week. I absolutely love how easy they make it. Free TWO week trial of PrepDish

Do you want to raise your children to be readers? In this episode we are going to dive into encouragement and resources for creating a culture of reading in your home - for kids and mom! Listen to the Podcast: You can find important links & info below. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links & Resources: Book links by reading ages mentioned: Reading to your baby & toddlers: Board books and visually pleasing books (The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Llama Llama Red Pajama, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, The Little Engine That Could, etc) The early reader: This is the 5-8 range. With emerging readers of my own, I know that this is a long process. Read aloud ALL the time during this age. The Usborne My First Reading Library Our very early reader books: Dash Into Learning More suggestions: Ralph S. Mouse, The Ramona Books, Henry and Ribsy, The Magic TreeHouse Books) The Middle grade reader: Ages 8 and up. Let them choose what interests them. Help guide them but let them explore worlds and ideas! Keep reading aloud at these ages. (The Redwall series, How to Train Your Dragon book series, etc.) Your Teen Reader: Keep an eye out for books labeled YA. You will still want to keep a close eye on what they are reading while also letting them explore! Help them explore reading outside their school requirements. As adults: Do the same thing!! Find the books that make you excited and don't want to put the book down...and ditch the others. Especially as busy moms, life is TOO short!! Links: Our homeschooling picks for this year (and how to instill a love of learning) – Hf #239 Get TWO WEEKS of free meal plans from PrepDish! PrepDish.com/Homemaking Resources for learning more about morning basket time: Your Morning Basket Podcast with Pam Barnhill – an entire podcast dedicated to this topic! How We Homeschool – Morning Time – by Read-Aloud Revival Simple Morning Time Plans – by Read-Aloud Revival Books to recommend: How to Raise a Reader by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo The Read Aloud Family by Sarah MacKenzie Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson Honey for a Child's Heart By Gladys Hunt Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Family Handbook - New 8th edition Sources for books by age: SonLight Sources for books by age: (many are preprints of old classics) The Good and the Beautiful Library Meal Planning Help for Eating Healthy: I am really excited to share with you the sponsor of today’s podcast episode: PrepDish! If you ever feel like you wish you had a little help in your meal planning, then I highly encourage you to check out PrepDish. They offer gluten-free meal plans and paleo meal plans. But you don’t have to eat a gluten-free or paleo diet in order to take advantage of all that PrepDish has to offer! In fact, almost half of their customers don’t eat those diets. The meals are healthy and non-processed and work well for anyone who is trying to eat a healthy diet. And PrepDish is offering a super special TWO week free trail when you sign up through this link (how awesome!!) When you sign up, you’ll receive an email every week with a grocery list and instructions for prepping your meals ahead of time. After only 1-3 hours of prepping on the weekend, you’ll have all of your meals ready for the entire week. I absolutely love how easy they make it. Free TWO week trial of PrepDish

Take note, if you’re consuming vitamins, make sure you’re not day-dosing yourself with melatonin… once Abby adjusted her vitamin schedule her writing followed suit, but we’re not gonna lie, Mr. Toad’s antics took a turn for the wild during Abby’s pm vitamin-induced daydreams.This week, Abby talks about the schisms she’s been dealing with in splitting her book into 3 parts. The goal for this revision was to up the worldbuilding in this draft and really bring the magic out from the first page. She’s started to layer in more meaning and up the stakes for Bernadette and the rest of the characters (welcome to the story, Ralph S. Mouse!).Mel read the first five chapters of her book to her daughter, and she LOVED it (Mel loved it too!) and was in hysterics at Mr. Toad’s, Amelia Bedelia, and Ralph S. Mouse. For MG writers, enthusiasm from a reader is the ultimate compliment. Abby wants to highlight the stuff that Mel’s daughter and her own daughter loved about it and make sure she keeps that in the forefront during the revision. It’s both the meaning for Bernadette and the worldbuilding that need to be super strong, because that’s what kids in this age group are looking for in a story.Abby works on starting and ending her chapters this week – what’s the key to the effective closure of a scene? When scenes and chapters begin and end, you can do it with a physical location. If you do that, there needs to be some decision that’s made to end the chapter and go to the next one. The decision in the chapter she’s referring to wasn’t entirely on the page, so that needs to be highlighted.“You don’t want to feel like you’re ending the chapter in the middle of a scene, but like anything, it’s a judgment call. There are plenty of books that do that, but it’s more satisfying when there’s a little bit of resolution with a sense of suspense to come.” – Kemlo AkiDialogue tags: When you’re the person writing, you know who’s talking. It really helps when someone else can read it for you and point out where you’re either adding in too many or leaving out important information. For most readers, they won’t notice the tags are there until you veer into overuse. Try to show who’s speaking without using dialogue tags, but make sure your cues are revealing something else about the characters as well. It can be an effective way to show nonverbal subtext in a glance, a raised eyebrow, etc.This week, Abby talks about the schisms she’s been dealing with in splitting her book into 3 parts. The goal for this revision was to up the worldbuilding in this draft and really bring the magic out from the first page. She’s started to layer in more meaning and up the stakes for Bernadette and the rest of the characters (welcome to the story, Ralph S. Mouse!).Mel read the first five chapters of her book to her daughter and she LOVED it (Mel loved it too!) and was in hysterics at Mr. Toad’s, Amelia Bedelia, and Ralph S. Mouse. For MG writers, enthusiasm from a reader is the ultimate compliment. Abby wants to highlight the stuff that Mel’s daughter and her own daughter loved about it and make sure she keeps that in the forefront during the revision. It’s both the meaning for Bernadette and the worldbuilding that need to be super strong, because that’s what kids in this age group are looking for in a story.Abby works on starting and ending her chapters this week – what’s the key to effective closure of a scene? When scenes and chapters start and end, you can do it with physical location. If you do that, there needs to be some decision that’s made to end the chapter and go to the next one. The decision in the chapter she’s referring to wasn’t fully on the page, so that needs to be highlighted.“You don’t want to feel like you’re ending the chapter in the middle of a scene, but like anything it’s a judgement call. There are plenty of books that do that, but it’s more satisfying when there’s a little bit of resolution with a sense of suspense to come.” – Kemlo AkiDialogue tags: When you’re the person writing, you know who’s talking. It really helps when someone else can read it for you and point out where you’re either adding in too many or leaving out important information. For most readers they won’t notice the tags are there until you veer into overuse. Try to show who’s speaking without using dialogue tags, but make sure your cues are revealing something else about the characters as well. It can be an effective way to show nonverbal subtext in a glance, a raised eyebrow, etc.

On this episode of Mom Writes… Abby goes above and beyond in a Sudafed-induced writing frenzy, turning in ALL the pages and a brand-new inside-outside (formerly two-tier) outline. With this new, revised version, Abby feels she’s got a real handle on her story.If we refer back to Ep 71 of the podcast, Abby thought she’d convinced Jennie that her original outline was meant for multiple books. Now, with this recent version, Abby assumes it’s back one book again, but Kemlo says, “Wait! There’s a lot more here.” There’s a whole bunch of material to explore, and there’s just not room for it all in one manuscript. It’s great news, but how do we break this up into multiple books?Once Abby has her new outline done and worked out how her protagonist’s journey can come full circle for this book, she thinks there’s actually four story ideas to explore. For book two, Abby’s got to figure out which of Bernadette’s problems to tackle next.The key, according to Kemlo, is solving these problems with the story, not the plot. When you solve problems with plot, you end up with something predictable and generic and rarely applicable to the characters in your book. Why are your plot elements problems for your particular characters? How and why are these challenges going to make them change?At the end of each book, Bernadette (and potentially secondary characters as well) has to come away with a new understanding of the problem she faced at the beginning of the story; she has to be changed in some meaningful way for the book to have impact on Abby’s readership.Ralph S. Mouse is a beloved character in Abby’s draft and the first clue to her reader that something is amiss in Bernadette’s world. Abby decides to bring in this magical aspect from the very first page with her new introduction of Ralph. Not only will Abby’s plan for Ralph and Bernadette move the story forward in what Bernadette learns about herself and friendship, but it brings the “book world” and the “normal world” in contact with each other from the beginning – a way to pick up the pacing of what Abby fears were a slow first few chapters.Next, Abby’s going to write forward with the new knowledge of how and when she’s ending her book and continue to revise her draft with this new information in mind.

Night winds, moaning around corners and whistling through cracks, dashed snow against the windows of the Mountain View Inn. Inside, a fire cracked in the stone fireplace. Host Phil Gonzales and John McCoy.

We welcome Ted Sikora to the show to first help us remember some of our favorite motorcycle wielding bad-asses in this week’s Retro Roundtable. It was this month in 2008 that Sons of Anarchy first premiered, so it seemed only right! We recall bad-asses like Judge Dredd, The Terminator, John Travolta, and Ralph S. Mouse….wait, what? Then we turn our attention to Ted to discuss the first extension into the Apama universe, Tap Dance Killer! Actress Nikki St Clair was the sweetest gal in the city until she was cast in a horror show musical as the Tap Dance Killer. Now, unable to shake the role, this 1920s-esque bizarre mobster assassin is out on the streets dealing damage with a theatrical flair that leaves 'em, quite literally, slain in the isles! Be sure to grab your copy wherever comics are sold! HeroTomorrow.com ApamaNation.com @TedSikora @ApamaNation CannedAirPodcast.com @CannedAirPod @Canned_Air If you’d like to show your support, you can either visit our Patreon page at Patreon.com/CannedAirPod or you can leave us a review on iTunes! Thanks for listening!

H.Y.D.R.A. Hardships of Young Defiant Rock Adolescence hosted by DJ Ivy Sits down with C-Kore and special guest Ralph S. Mouse. They talk about Bullying, guns on campus and Ivy freaks out about Ralph running the studio.