Innocence: A Perspective for Intelligent Reading
(Bright Wings: Children's Books welcomes Anna Reynold's wise reflection on Mirette on the Highwire by Emily Arnold McCully) Certain books...
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Charity Hill
- Dec 16, 2022
- 3 min
Living Deeply, Reading Deeply
"O Come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer Our Spirits by thine advent here. Disperse the gloomy clouds of night And death's dark shadows...
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ubicaritas
- Jun 7, 2022
- 4 min
Family Summer Seminar: How Adventure Shapes Identity
We talked about how adventure shapes character as we first discussed Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe by Vera Williams and then Call...
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Charity Hill
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
Shakespeare + Kids?
Children can begin to appreciate their literary inheritance and enjoy Shakespeare. Become a supportive reading community.
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Sydney Rosenberger
- Apr 6, 2022
- 10 min
AN ETHICAL LOOK AT The Keeper of the Lost Cities SERIES
(After my book review of the first novel in this series, I entered into conversation with Sydney Rosenberger a children's librarian. She...
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Jenny Richeson
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
CARING FOR WORDS WITH JENNY RICHESON, SLP
I hope you enjoyed the more technical exploration of word-language-reading issues that I discussed with Jenny Richeson. Here, we bow to...
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Charity Hill
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Favorite Christmas Picture Books, 2021
Thank you for purchasing books for your family through these links. I receive10% from Bookshop. You can use this list which has a couple...
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Jeremy Adams
- Nov 2, 2021
- 7 min
The Death of Gratitude in the American Classroom
(Originally published in The Public Discourse. Used with author's permission.) JUNE 27, 2021. BY JEREMY ADAMS Encouraging people to be...
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Amanda Knapp
- Sep 16, 2021
- 4 min
Mothering: The On-Going Birth Story
I remember the moment of my oldest daughter's birth with incredible clarity. Every single birth of every single child is beautiful and...
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Charity Hill
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Stories For Strong Girls
*Thank you for supporting this mission by buying books through these links! Stories for Strong Girls Ages 3-10: Big Sister Now. Annette...
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Charity Hill
- Aug 12, 2021
- 9 min
An Open Letter to Comic Artists, Comic Readers, and Comic Apologists, To Mothers and Fathers
It was my great pleasure to discuss comics and beauty with Julian Peters on Episodes 16 and Episode 17 of Bright Wings: Children’s Books...
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Charity Hill
- Jul 28, 2021
- 1 min
Images: In Conversation With Julian Peters, On Comics and Beauty
Hello and Welcome! While you enjoy listening to the conversations about comics and beauty, please refer to these images. First, I present...
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Amanda Knapp
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
Confessions of a Fallen-Away Poet
Can I make a confession? In my entire life I have dropped only two course because they were too difficult. One was college statistics. ...
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Charity Hill
- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
Gardening As Humanizing
Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness at the side of your lawn. I should be glad to take a turn in it....
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Charity Hill
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
Spirituality vs. Morality: Further Reading Suggestions
Listening to the podcast Family Spirituality and Fiction caused me to think anew about its themes. I wonder if it raised questions in...
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Amanda Knapp
- Mar 22, 2021
- 5 min
Connecting Faith and Life Through Reading
I call my nine year old the Queen of Connections. I enjoy her royal abilities most of the time. I’m temporarily homeschooling my kids,...
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Charity Hill
- Mar 9, 2021
- 6 min
Resilience in Real Life
Who do you see practicing resilience? When you start noticing resiliency you may start to see it in more places than you'd imagined. Our...
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Amanda Knapp
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
Are Fairy Tales Good Mothering?
I remember the moment I saw my oldest daughter for the first time. I remember the quiet and the stillness and the soft lighting. Almost...
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Amanda Knapp
- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
Where Am I Going? What Good Must I Do?
How do we get where we are going? Honestly, that’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. I find myself stuck in what Dr Suess...
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Katherine Leaño
- Jan 12, 2021
- 9 min
Bloom Where You're Planted: How People, Place and Love Make a Home
A cross stitch my granny made says: Bloom where you are planted. There is wisdom in that statement. Unlike plants, we usually make a...
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Maria Reilander
- Dec 28, 2020
- 2 min
The Freedom of the Childlike
Embracing life and the simple things in all their truth, beauty and goodness, Peter stays rooted in what really matters and experiences a...
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Erin Graver
- Dec 11, 2020
- 6 min
Growing An Instinct for Beauty
I am a bookworm, raising a flock of bookworms (what is the term for a group of worms? A…. squiggle? A squiggle of bookworms?) after me. I...
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Charity Hill
- Dec 7, 2020
- 2 min
Episode 4: Great Illustrations and Why They Matter
Every experience of beauty points to eternity. Hans Urs von Balthasar We hope you enjoyed considering, along with Charity and Amanda,...
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Amanda Knapp
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
A Treasure to Impart
She and I laid on the floor, a pink, soft blanket lying underneath us, as I held up MaryAnn Cusimano's You Are My I Love You, reading the...
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