Green Ember Series Reviews

“When my audience wants to know our family’s favorite readaloud, I answer without hesitation: The Green Ember. My audience constantly thanks me for recommending it. The Green Ember has become a true cult classic…” - Sarah Mackenzie, bestselling author and Read-Aloud Revival founder

“A lot of titles aspire to the legacy of Narnia and Middle-Earth. S. D. Smith’s Green Ember is the real deal—an epic story with deeply inspiring characters and powerful, timeless values. In today’s market, no independent title has grabbed the hearts of children (of all ages) as quickly…Green Ember is a classic in the making, one that will resonate for generations.”

 Rick Rekedal, DreamWorks Executive (1996-2017)
“My children believe with all their hearts that Green Ember is their story, their fight for truth, and their shared hope. These adventures are made to shape a courageous childhood.”
Elsie Iudicello
Farmhouse Schoolhouse 
“Green Ember is exactly what my audience is hungry for to share with their families.”
Sally Clarkson
Bestselling Author: Own Your Life, The Life-giving Home & many more
“With very humble beginnings, Green Ember is on course to capture the imagination of millions. I’ve seen it in my own family and am seeing it across the country.”
Randall Goodgame
Founder, Slugs & Bugs Family Music

“Green Ember really is a new story with an old soul, a tale about heroic hope in a chaotic time. It’s also just the kind of story we need right now.” – Shawn Thornton, author of All But Normal

“The marks of any worthwhile story are comprised of three essential components: A compelling narrative, a believable world and appealing characters. S. D. Smith has managed to masterfully weave together a series of books that have them all in surplus.” - Nathan Engelhardt, Film Director Forevergreen

“Both boys and girls will find much to love.” – Emily Whitten, World Magazine

“There is a sincerity in S. D. Smith’s writing that makes the reader feel like they too could be the heroes of their own stories. Like the greats that Smith loves (Tolkien, Lewis, etc.), he tells stories…which inform the moral imagination and continue to speak to the reader long after the book has been returned to the shelf.”

Sara Masarik, Plumfield Moms
“I enthusiastically commend The Green Ember. This story resonates with many who long for more stories in the tradition of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the great Christian writers who have appealed so strongly to the imaginations of people of faith and beyond.”
Ivan Mesa
Editorial Director, The Gospel Coalition
“For my own children, it has become the most beloved book of their childhood. They have turned our backyard into their own movie set and play act the story. They live out the story’s exciting adventures day after day. And they are not alone. The Green Ember has captured children’s imaginations across the country.”
Lesli Richards
author of The Homegrown Preschooler and A Year of Playing Skillfully
“In the tradition of Narnia, The Green Ember tells a story that is fun, captivating, and beautiful…There were moments when the beauty of the story brought me to tears. When my girls would ask me why I was crying, I said, ‘One day you are going to reread this book when you are older, and you will see how beautiful it is.’”
Joshua Hutchens
Gospel Life

“It is fun, it is fast, it is moving – in short all that an adventure story should be.” – Barnabas Piper, author of Help My Unbelief

 “S. D. Smith has the unique ability to combine easy-going humor with a wisdom that is both honest and hopeful. To engage with his teaching is to get an insight into the courageous optimism at the heart of his stories.” – Heidi Johnston, author of Life in the Big Story

“A captivating story with sword-bearing rabbits, daring quests, and moments of poignant beauty, The Green Ember is a tale that will delight and inspire young readers to courage and creativity, and would make a perfect book for a family to read-aloud.” – Sarah Clarkson

 “S. D. Smith does it again! He’s crafted another pulse-pounding adventure teeming with twists and turns, starring a captivating cast of rabbits who face impossible odds, treacherous waters, and a terrifying enemy. Green Ember fans are in for a treat!” –  Brian Jones, Animation Executive

“This is an ‘instant classic.’ That is to say, it shares the same spirit of derring-do involving small characters cast into big adventure against long odds with so many of the stories I’ve loved through the years, from Treasure Island to Watership Down. The Green Ember is about two rabbits, sister Heather and brother Picket, who find themselves caught up in the struggle at the fabric of their world and seek to right some pretty dreadful wrongs. Along the way, they wrestle with their own weaknesses and encounter dastardly deeds, danger, and double-crosses. (Thankfully, no terrifying over-use of alliteration.) It’s entertaining, thought-provoking, beautifully-written, and I’m sure will challenge its young readers to dig deep by inspiring them with both the successes and failures of its lapine protagonists.” Glenn McCarty, author of The Misadventured Summer of Tumbleweed Thompson

“This is a wonderful story full of adventure, friendship, betrayal, and redemption. That the characters are Rabbits only adds to the delight, and the pacing sweeps you into a worthwhile tale not to be soon forgotten. The styling, character arcs, pacing, and imagery are all artful and compelling. Beautiful scenes of home, purpose in one’s work, and loyalty are deepened by the honest depictions of exile, the consequences of treachery, bitterness, and fighting for one’s home. Not only a book of action, it’s a thought-provoking tale that glories in the good, the true, and the beautiful.” – Breezy Brookshire, illustrator for A Little More Beautiful

“What a grand adventure! When I first read S. D. Smith’s The Green Ember to my own children, we were instantly smitten. This is a story that we all enjoy again and again for it’s beauty, playfulness, and adventure.” – Kris Camealy, author of Come, Lord Jesus: the Weight of Waiting

“The Green Ember may be classified as a children’s book, but its appeal is certainly universal. It’s a fantastic read for the entire family to enjoy, and Smith makes his chapter lengths perfect for bedtime reading.” – Eric Landfried, The Phantom Tollbooth

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