WOF 408: Great Catholic Kids Books w/ Haley Stewart
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Today, we share a fun discussion between Brandon Vogt and Haley Stewart, Editor of Word on Fire Spark, our new imprint of books for young readers. Topics include:
- Were you a reader growing up? What were some of your favorite books?
- How would you assess the current landscape of childrens’ books? What’s good? What’s missing?
- What is Word on Fire Spark and how did it come to be?
- What is the mission/vision for Spark? How will Spark books stand out among other books for children?
- Upcoming books from Word on Fire Spark
- Forthcoming “Spark the Imagination” podcast
- The Spark Bible – a new Bible for young Catholic readers
Links
- Word on Fire Spark
- Saintly Creatures: 14 Tales of Animals and Their Holy Companions by Alexi Sargeant
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this special interview. I'm Brandon Vaat, the senior publishing director at Word on Fire, |
| 0:11.2 | and today I'm joined by my longtime friend and colleague, Haley Stewart. Haley is the author of |
| 0:17.9 | several award-winning books, including The Sister Seraphina Mysteries, which are detective stories |
| 0:24.2 | featuring a community of mouse nuns who live under the floorboard of G.K. Chesterton's house. |
| 0:31.5 | Yes, it is as delightful as it sounds. Haley, besides being an author, is also a longtime blogger |
| 0:37.9 | and podcaster. She hosts the Word on Fire book club inside of our Word on Fire Institute, |
| 0:43.7 | but today we're going to be discussing Haley's role as the editor of Word on Fire Spark. Word on |
| 0:50.9 | Fire Spark. This is our new imprint of books at Word on Fire for young readers, Spark being a little |
| 0:57.8 | flame. So it's for small people. And Haley heads up Word on Fire Spark. She's the editor. She's |
| 1:04.1 | been working behind the scenes now for almost a couple of years, preparing a ton of beautiful, |
| 1:09.7 | interesting books that will be coming soon from Spark. So Haley, welcome. It's great to be with you |
| 1:15.3 | and talk about this exciting new initiative. Thanks, Brandon. Yeah, I'm so excited to talk about |
| 1:20.7 | everything we have in the works with Spark. Let's start off with your background. Tell us about |
| 1:26.3 | your experience with kids' books, where you always a reader growing up. What were some of your |
| 1:31.4 | favorite books as a child? I was always a reader. I loved to read and I got really into |
| 1:39.8 | classics, fantasy, and historical fiction. We're kind of my favorite. So I loved Madeline |
| 1:45.5 | Lingle's Time Quintet, A Wrinkle in Time, and then the books in that series. I loved the |
| 1:52.2 | Underground Gable series by Lucy Mod Montgomery. One of my favorites was The Girl the Limber |
| 1:58.0 | Lost by Jean Stratton Porter, which is a little bit lesser known. And then The Hobbit and Lord |
| 2:04.0 | of the Rings kind of got me into fantasy with J.R. Tolkien's books. So I was a big reader, |
| 2:11.0 | loved to read and kind of tried out a bunch of different genres. |
| 2:16.4 | You've long been interested in children's literature from, we might call it a professional |
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