Ep 53: Lord of the Rings, but with mice with C. L. McCartney

Chris’s choice: Mossflower by Brian Jacques Ali’s choice: The Spick and the Span by Pil Van Martin, longlisted for the Carnegie awardMossflower cover art for the 1989 Red Lion edition by Pete LyonCastaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian JacquesRobin Hood and Maid MarionWarrior Cats by Erin Hunter. I met Cherith Baldry, one of the Erin Hunter writers, at Glasgow WorldCon. Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz; Young James Bond by Charlie HigsonI made a recipe from the Redwall cookbookA journal article by Christopher Quah Wai Kheong and Anita Harris Satkunananthan on othering in Outcast of RedwallProfessor Dimitra Fimi ‘Was Tolkien really racist?’Cluny the Scourge.   The first two episodes of the Redwall cartoon series feature Cluny.Spindle’s End by Robin McKinleyMarvel: Damage Control was a limited series of comics, a TV show was in development but never made. The Superhero Clean Up Squad was a comedy series from 2015.The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness is the story of the other students of the high school infested by zombies and vampires, not the chosen ones; the ones who just want to graduate before school blows up again. Check out Bona Books Follow Chris on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/chrismccartney.bsky.social