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A conversation with Christian authors, editors, and more about contemporary children’s literature and how to find the right books for your kids.

Meet a new generation of authors picking up where Lewis and Tolkien left off.

StoryJumpers! Welcome to another episode of your favorite storytelling podcast! Are you ready to hear a great story? Of course – that’s why you’re a Story Jumper! Enjoy this reading of the prologue to The Green Ember series by S.D. Smith. Meet Heather and Picket – two extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives. Calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world. Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loy...

Off the Shelf: 2020 Favorites Rhonda Frevert Burlington Public Library One of my favorite end of the year traditions is gathering staff picks for books, audiobooks, and movies, not just from my own coworkers, but also from staff members at our neighboring libraries, too. I hope you enjoy seeing what your area librarians have been loving this year and find a few things to add to your list to read, listen to, or watch in the new year. Your local library would love to lend these items to you. Ask your local library about availability or requesting the item through interlibrary loan. These i...

by Kate Foran | Published 19th November 2020 Pillar of Fire by Joyce Hollyday Can we have a story with all the immersive medieval detail—from herb-strewn floors to falconers to feast days— of Kristin Lavransdatter but with none of the tiresome obsession with sexual sin? Can we enter a world with the depth of history of Lord of the Rings without the racist overtones and dearth of female characters? Can we readers have a vision of “The Mended Wood” as cast by S.D. Smith in The Green Ember without buying into the myth of redemptive violence? Can we have a story of risk and companionship ...