Episode
Carbles Marbles, Castro's Astros
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- Dads on Books
- Published
- Dec 1, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 2718
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Summary
We get to part two of our conversation with My Weird School series (and many many other silly and some not silly books) Dan Gutman. Our surprise guest shows up. Will we find Dr. Carbles? Or his marbles? Take a listen and find out. Bonus stuff: Dan’s writing tips for young (and old) aspiring writers: Start with “what if?” and add imagination. What if Castro became an Astro? Get ‘em with the first sentence. Regarding drafts: “pretend to be somebody else while reading what you wrote.“ Put the draft aside and read it later. Dan and David try to outdraw each other and we don’t mean in the Jim Paillot way. We learn what inspired Dan to be a writer (it wasn’t because he wasn’t good enough at baseball, but that didn’t hurt!). We discover how much he prepared for our book talk —“We start in an hour and—oh crap! We’re gonna talk about Dr. Carbles losing his marbles! Do I even have that? Do I even remember it?!” And other fun things. If you liked this episode, you’ll LOVE these: Dan Gutman is a Nutman, Part 1 The FIRST time Ruby joined us it was the whole episode! El Deafo Dan’s It’s Halloween, I’m Turning Green! Rappy the Raptor Rhymezone