Our local Wild & Free group celebrates stories with monthly book club parties. Please note that the main characters face some peril, and sensitive readers may wish to hold off on the series until older. The story is written as middle grade novels but children as young as 5 and as old as 102 will enjoy these stories. The Green Ember series contains the kinds of stories that inspire you to be more heroic in your everyday life. Smith’s stories are not merely good stories – they are stories with depth of values and character. That phrase that continued to stir my heart was, “My life beside you, my blood for yours, until the green ember rises, or the end of the world.” S.D. That series was, of course, the Green Ember by S.D. We were enthralled with the author’s descriptive storytelling and the narrator’s wonderful performance. We picked the story back up – this time in audio format – and instantly became engaged. One phrase kept popping in to my social media feed and stirring my emotions. Life and other stories got in the way but I continued to see so much praise and love for this series. Intrigued, we began to read the book together. The series started as stories told from a father to his children. I was not required to write a positive review, and all opinions expressed here are my own.A few years ago I began to see posts on Instagram about a series of books that was inspiring imagination, creativity, courage, and play. ![]() Many thanks to Classical Education Books, who provided me with a complementary copy of this book for review purposes. I’m pleased to be able to tell my Canadian readers that The Green Ember (and many other hard to find books and curricula) is now available in Canada from Classical Education Books! Shopping with Classical Education Books makes things so much easier for Canadian homeschoolers - prices listed are in Canadian dollars so you don’t have to try to figure out exchange rates, orders are shipping from Canada so you don’t have to worry about extra shipping costs, duty, or brokerage fees. So I bought the audio version of the book (it’s narrated by Joel Clarkson and is very well done!) and continued to check Amazon.ca, hoping it would be made available in Canada. ![]() Even my public library said they couldn’t purchase it. My search for a place to buy the book, however, came up empty. I have been wanting to get my hands on this one for a long time! When The Green Ember was first published, it created quite a stir among my online book club members, and I was quite excited by the rave reviews it received from many of my favourite authors, bloggers, and book reviewers. There is much in it that reminds me of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit. The story is full of nourishing themes: good vs evil, redemption, self-sacrifice, loyalty, bravery - all the good stuff that feeds the imagination and inspires children (and all of us really) to be the heroes of our own stories. The Green Ember features adventure, suspense, and a wonderful selection of inspiring quotes. It is the story of two young rabbit siblings, Heather & Picket, who lived very ordinary lives (supposing you were a talking rabbit of course) in Nick Hollow until their family was kidnapped and their home destroyed by an army of evil wolves. ![]() Smith’s desire is to tell new stories with an old soul, full of old virtues and “vintage adventure”, and that’s just what he did. Smith’s The Green Ember is just such a book. They may be hard to find at times, but they are being written. I love them! But I do realize that all classics were new at some point in time and that just because an author is now dead does not mean their books are good or wholesome.Īs much as I get excited and feel compelled to tell everyone I know when I discover a classic work of children’s literature that I missed out on as a child, I’m even more excited when I discover books of equal value that are being written today. Let me confess to you straight out that I tend to have a bias towards the older, time-tested children’s classics.
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