Cherryleaf Library for Children Podcast
The Cherryleaf Library for Children presents books that could educate children. In our society, we need children’s books that are not simply entertaining and occupying children’s attention, but that educate them in the most profound sense of the word educate: Help them to form their character and identity. The contradictory messages of our society make the formation of character and identity quite problematic – that’s why by their teenage years so many children suffer from mental discomfort, which often turns into actual mental illness. These books do so not through the articulation of abstract principles but through the development of empathy and, especially, sympathy with the suffering of others, clearly distinguishing between good (which is equated with kindness) and evil (equated with cruelty), and helping the child to become a better human being.
Cherryleaf Library for Children Podcast
Without Family: Chapters 22-23
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Liah Greenfeld
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Season 1
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Episode 12
The mine is flooded by the river which flows overhead and seven miners, including Gaspard and Rémi, find shelter, but are trapped. For days they wait to be rescued, hungry and depressed. Finally, they are saved, and Rémi, Mattia, and Capi leave again. Their performances bring good money and they plan to visit Mother Barberin and buy her a present: a cow. Rémi wants Mattia to learn music and they visit a music teacher (and a barber) who is impressed by Mattia's talent. But when he tries to convince Mattia to stay with him and learn music, Mattia refuses to leave Rémi.