About

The story of our friendship began almost two decades before we met, when our husbands were growing up together as close family friends.  Many years later we met at Wheaton College, but didn’t get to know each other well until after graduation.

Sarah and her husband moved to the Twin Cities a few years after college and Haley and her husband followed a year later.  When Sarah left a teaching job to stay home with her firstborn, she started a book club with Haley and several other friends.  That group is where the real substance of our friendship developed.  Since 2007 we’ve met monthly to discuss books as varied as Hannah Coulter, Angle of Repose, A Reason for God, and An Experiment in Criticism.

We have long shared a concern for excellence in theological books for kids and lamented that that best ones are too hard to find.  In our conversations about Christian kids lit we often swapped titles that met our standards and talked about why there were so many others that didn’t.  We found ourselves wishing that there was a theological version of Under the Chinaberry Tree or a more comprehensive section of distinctly Christian books in Honey for a Child’s Heart.  Since there wasn’t, we decided to create a blog so we could share our own booklist with others and begin a conversation about the dual importance of truth and beauty in children’s theological books.  We’re both evangelical Protestants, but Christians from other backgrounds will be able to embrace many of the books we recommend.

(Update: Sarah and her family left snowy Minnesota winters behind when they moved to California the summer or 2011. Haley’s plan is for them to return as soon as possible, but in the meantime this blog is co-authored long distance.)

For more insight into our approach, check out our list of influences in the right sidebar or read our introductory post.  You can also read more about Haley and Sarah in the archives.