While moms may be the ones buying the books, it’s the family that inhabits the worlds within them. The atmosphere, habits, and ideas of our home are shaped by the stories we read together which means we’re forming the minds, imaginations, and hearts of everyone involved. Whether you’ve just heard about living books or you’ve been reading the classics for years, you have to ask yourself: Are we building a family literary life of truth, goodness, and beauty?

I’m joined by Shay and Catherine Gregorie to discuss how we can inhabit stories with our children, speaking into existence worlds that show them God’s hand in the uncommon and common moments of our lives.

Footnotes for this episode

Wolfbane Books

The King of All Things, Shay & Catherine Gregorie

The Forgotten King, Kenneth Padgett & Shay Gregorie

The Story of God Our King, Kenneth Padgett & Shay Gregorie

The Story of God with Us, Kenneth Padgett & Shay Gregorie

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

The Wingfeather Saga, Andrew Peterson

The Wilderking Series, Jonathan Rogers

The Year of Miss Agnes, Kirkpatrick Hill

The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall

The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

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