If you read nothing else to your kids this year, read The Green Ember. This is a book that will steep your family’s imagination in the good, true, and beautiful.

The characters encounter tremendous difficulty and face them with indomitable courage. You will laugh, cry, and find your heart racing. You will wonder if you could possibly live up to the nobility and fortitude Heather and Picket.

You will, in short, fall down a rabbit hole. :)

I stumbled across The Green Ember during some random late night clicking and had no idea I had found such a treasure. After reading it with my kids, I started shouting about it from the rooftops and wrote to the author, asking if he’d please-pretty-please come on the podcast.

Guess what? He said yes.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  • heroic virtue
  • holy imagination in children’s literature
  • and why I fell head-over-heels for this book

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Books from this episode:

(All links are affiliate links.)

100 Cupboards
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
The Absent Author (A to Z Mysteries)
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit / the Fellowship of the Ring / the Two Towers / the
The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set: Full-Color Collector’s Edition
Orthodoxy
Out of the Silent Planet
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Knickerbocker Classics)
The Pout-Pout Fish
Hush, Little Dragon
No, David!

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