Hold on to your hats everyone – I am sharing one of my very favorite middle grade series in this episode. I’m chatting with both my daughter Allison and someone who just might be my favorite living author, Jonathan Rogers.
Jonathan is author of the fantastic Winderking series, which has been described as a cross between Tolkien and Twain.
In this episode, we tackle:
- whether characters in books should serve as role models… or not
- the way stories inspire us to live a better story ourselves
- how Narnia tells more truth than a non-fiction book
Plus, Allison asks Jonathan about writing his trilogy, and he tells a great story about the origin of some of his characters. You don’t want to miss it!
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Episode 67
Links from today’s show:
- The audiobook versions of The Bark of the Bog Owl and The Way of the Wilderking are now available!
- RAR #44: Magic and Fear in Children’s Books, N.D. Wilson
- The Jonathan Rogers website
- Writing courses by Jonathan Rogers
- More wonderful resources from The Rabbit Room
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This may be my favorite episode ever! And yes, I did just drop $30 for the Katherine Patterson book you recommended. (Thankfully The World According to Narnia was on sale) :)
It’s WORTH IT. Really, so good. So, so good. I have half the book underlined. 💛
My husband read this to our children a few years ago and I took that opportunity to be busy with all of the “urgent” items on my list. Clearly I MISSED OUT! Thank you for reminding me that I can and should enjoy fantastic books too! Pulling it off the shelf NOW!
Okay. I am listening to this and my mouth is stilll a gape … an allagator at his dog!
I sound like I grew up in a swamp! Geez. I meant “alligator ate”. And I don’t think I will recover from that image. LOL
Yep! That story caught me off guard too!
Diversity…How do you handle and read diversity?
I’ve not read any of Jonathan’s books and am looking forward to changing that! Thanks for another fun episode.
Could you go back to putting the kids’ recommendations in the book link section? I often can’t understand what they are staying (and am always driving so can’t write down ideas anyway), and I’d like to be able to follow up on some of them. Thanks!
Thanks for the information your article brings. I see the novelty of your writing, I will share it for everyone to read together. I look forward to reading many articles from you.
I’m so grateful for this podcast! Thanks so much for introducing me to this wonderful author – after listening to this I got The Charlatan’s Boy from the library and it is one of my favorite books now! I was hooked from the very first page. I am *extremely * picky about books and this one knocked it out of the park. Definitely the best modern middle grade work of fiction I’ve ever read. One question: do we know if there are any plans in the works to make it into an audiobook?
Hello, Heather. I’m sorry to report that there aren’t plans for a Charlatan’s Boy audiobook. I don’t own those audio rights, and I don’t think Waterbrook Press has any intention of making an audio book.