Reading in the Home

Authors Haley Stewart and Claire Swinarski reflect on how a lifelong love of reading sparked their writing careers, helped cultivate a rich reading culture in their homes, and continues to open the door to deeper, more meaningful connections with others.

More about this episode:

1. Haley and Claire discuss how reading impacted their own careers as writers.

2. Why reading is so essential to family life and how the memories of reading together form children into better readers and thinkers.

3. Advice for facilitating healthy reading habits in the lives of children by encouraging them to read thoughtful, beautiful books and how they cultivate better reading habits in their own lives, too.

Haley Stewart is a Catholic author and the editor of Word on Fire Spark. She is the author of Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life and The Grace of Enough.

Claire Swinarski is the author of books for both adults and children, including Girl, Arise! and In Full Bloom.