Bright Wings: Children’s Books to Make the Heart Soar
How do you know a good book when you see it? What books are really worth reading? The purpose of this conversation is to help mothers and fathers identify books that will liberate their children to embrace truth, goodness, and beauty. We’ll be pondering questions of life and lifestyle as we seek to become people who live deeply and read deeply, drawing our children into the adventure of reading and living.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 8: Where Am I Going? What Good Must I Do?
Charity Hill and Emily Sullivan discuss how fiction shapes our children's moral imagination, allowing them to explore moral choices and possibilities. Through empathy and imagination, a child can exp…
Episode 7: Where Am I From? Why Setting Matters to Character
Charity Hill interviews Carla Galdo where they wonder about the importance that place/setting has on human character. Carla shares about the decision to move her family to a farm. They discuss pictur…
Episode 6: Bloom Where You're Planted: The Effect of Place on Character
Charity Hill reads Katherine Leaño's essay "Bloom Where You're Planted" to frame an understanding of the effect of place on character. They propose that certain things give our children the roots to …
Episode 5: Limits, Rules, and Other Liberating Things
Charity Hill discusses how The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom inspired her to consider the role that limits have on shaping heroic character. Can we possibly find limits liberating? How do rules hel…
Episode 4: Great Illustrations and Why They Matter
Just how important are great book illustrations? How much do they really matter? What effect do beautiful illustrations have on my child? Enjoy the conversation between Charity Hill and Amanda Knapp …
Episode 3: Board Books: Meditating Together With Jaclyn Ruli
Together with Jaclyn Ruli, Montessori educator and homeschooling supermom of six (or is it seven?!), I reflect on being a new mom and learning to choose worthwhile board books. We review some Montess…
Episode 1: Introducing Bright Wings: Children’s Books to Make the Heart Soar
Welcome to Bright Wings: Children’s Books to Make the Heart Soar! Have you ever wondered what makes a book worth reading? What are some reliable criteria? We all want to give our children the best. H…
Episode 2: Who Am I? Babies and Board Books
The adventure of reading begins with board books! When we begin reading to our littles, we begin to help them answer the questions "What IS?" and "Who am I?" These are the very deep questions that bo…