{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Mining Black Glass, Mending Little Hearts","description":"In this warm and engaging episode of Reading With Your Kids, Jed sits down with two returning guests whose very different books both invite powerful family conversations. First up is Anthony Peckham, author of The Law of Solitude, Book Three in the Children of Glass trilogy. Anthony explains how a family road trip to an obsidian mountain and a single arrowhead led to a sprawling high-fantasy world\u2014Earth as we don\u2019t quite know it, filled with black glass, sorcerers, and a bustling trade city inspired by medieval Timbuktu and Venice. He introduces listeners to his tough, resourceful sibling heroes who break village rules to save their injured father. Drawing on his background as a Hollywood screenwriter, Anthony talks about writing the trilogy as \u201cone long novel,\u201d crafting page-turning cliffhangers, and then learning, with the help of a patient editor, to slow down and explore his characters\u2019 inner lives. Beneath the thrills, the books explore honor, courage, resilience, adaptability, and facing uncertainty\u2014ideal themes for parents, kids, and teachers to unpack together. Later, Jed welcomes back Tracy C. Gold, author of the heartfelt picture book Call Your Father from Familius. Tracy shares how the book spotlights dads and grandfathers as fully capable, loving caregivers\u2014handling nighttime wake-ups, school issues, big emotions, and tender moments often stereotyped as \u201cmom jobs.\u201d She pulls back the curtain on how long traditional publishing takes, why books sometimes get stuck on ships, and how her own family inspired both Call Your Mother and Call Your Father. Tracy also talks about working from home, reading her work aloud during revisions, and watching her daughter dream up her own spin-off, \u201cCall Your Pet.\u201d ","author_name":"Reading With Your Kids Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/readingwithyourkids.libsyn.com\/site","html":"