

With deceptively simple style and confident voice, Smith’s tale honors incarnate virtue among dashing plot turns, complex animal politics, and genuinely frightening foes.īest for: Middle-grade readers and any fans of Redwall’s or Narnia’s talking beasts.ĭiscern: Dark enemies chase and threaten children, non-detailed scenes show heroes’ and villains’ injuries and deaths, children are traumatized by loss and possible deaths of parents, boy struggles with resulting anger and bitterness, two siblings must confront false accusations along with their family’s actual dark past. Smith’s The Green Ember, book 1 of the Green Ember series, presents a surprisingly earnest epic about small creatures drawn into big spiritual ideas. Wicked wolves tear through the forest, chasing the siblings away from home and into the woodland resistance as heralds of a promised “mended wood.” S. In a cozy hollow tree live Heather and Picket, two rabbits who know adventure mainly from their parents’ stories of olden times. Listen to Fantastical Truth episode 97: What If Rabbits With Swords Fought For Hope in a Mended Wood? | The Green Ember with S.

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When he’s not writing adventurous tales of #RabbitsWithSwords in his writing shed, dubbed The Forge, Smith loves to speak to audiences about storytelling, imagination, and seeing yourself as a character in the Story. Smith is the author of The Green Ember Series, a bestselling middle-grade adventure saga. The Green Ember has reached hundreds of thousands of readers and spent time as the number one bestselling audiobook in the world on Audible. So today, loosen your tie (if you wear one), sit back with your beverage of choice, forget about work for a bit, and enjoy S.D. In my conversation with Smith, we covered storytelling, what makes us cry, working on what brings you passion, courage, bravery, loss, purpose, vocation, faith, and even Jurassic Park. Smith to come onto the show to talk about life. In an effort to bring you more content during this pandemic, I broadened my horizons and thought a bit more outside the box. Maybe this is the most relevant episode I’ve ever published. Today we have an episode that is NOT about project management or a topic directly related to it.
