Ice Cream with Authors: Christian Books for Kids 7-13 – Details, episodes & analysis

In this finale to Season 2 of Ice Cream with Authors, we’re mixing things up with a Christmas-themed variety show.

Whether you’ve been listening since Episode 1 or are just jumping in, you’re in for a sweet celebration full of stories, laughter, and Christmas cheer.

So grab your favorite scoop, get festive, and let’s celebrate the end of the year as well as the end of Season 2.

Reading from The Christmas Color © Tori Higa. Used by permission of the author.

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting with Anna Rose Johnson. Anna Rose Johnson grew up fascinated by the early 20th century and now writes historical middle grade novels, including her debut middle grade novel The Star That Always Stays (Holiday House), which was named a Christy Amplify Award winner, a Michigan Notable Book Award Winner, and an NPR Best Book of 2022, and her sophomore novel, The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry, which received three starred reviews. Her third novel, The Blossoming Summer, released in 2025.

Audiobook Credits:

The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry

Copyright © 2024 by Anna Rose Johnson

Published by Holiday House Publishing, Inc.

Audio excerpt provided courtesy of Dreamscape Media

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, December 4, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our last Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here. 

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are sharing the inside scoop on how we publish our books. We talk about the differences between indie and traditional publishing, why we both chose to publish independently, and the basic steps of our publishing processes.

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, December 4, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our last Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here. 

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting again with Carolyn Leiloglou. Carolyn is the granddaughter of art collectors, daughter of an art teacher, and homeschooling mom to four wildly creative kids. She’s an award-winning author whose poems and short stories have appeared in children’s magazines around the world. Carolyn also reviews her favorite children's books on her online platform, House full of Bookworms. 

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, October 2, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our first Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here. 

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting with Meredith Davis. Meredith writes middle grade books about super powerful kids (and all kids can be super powerful!). Her superpowers include reading, grandmothering, and finding ways to fit more books in her Austin, Texas home.

Audio excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio from The Minor Miracle by Meredith Davis, read by Mark Sanderlin. © 2024 Meredith Davis, ℗ 2024 Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, October 2, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our first Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here.

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting with Sandra Chambers. Sandra is a wife, mother, new grandmother, author, former teacher, and founder and former host of the 5-Minute Parenting Podcast. She has published an adult book on prayer, a children's devotional, a picture book, and has contributed to two adult devotional books.

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, October 2, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our first Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here. 

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting with Bill Myers. Bill Myers is a best-selling author and award-winning filmmaker. To date, his books and videos have sold over 8 million copies, and he’s won over 60 awards, including the C.S. Lewis Honor Award. He’s the creator of McGee and Me and The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle, with over 120 published books—80 of them for children. Not bad for a man who never wanted to be a writer!

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, October 2, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our first Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here. 

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting with Shawn Smith. Shawn is an author, historian, librarian, and missionary whose love for books began in her childhood when her dad opened a Christian bookstore. Her debut novel, The Freedom Chain, is a historical adventure written for her own children during the years that they lived in a remote jungle of Papua New Guinea.

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, October 2, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our first Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here. 

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting with Kathryn Butler. Kathryn is a trauma surgeon turned writer and homeschooling mom. She is the author of the Dream Keeper Saga.

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, October 2, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our first Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here. 

In this episode of Ice Cream with Authors, we are visiting with Marianne Hering. Marianne is the author or coauthor of 36 Imagination Station books that show key moments in Christian History. She wants to share the adventure God brings to those who serve Him.

Ice Cream with Authors is the podcast that brings mini-author visits straight to your home or car! Perfect for kids ages 7 through 13 and their grown-ups, each episode serves up delightful conversations with authors who create faith-filled chapter books and middle grade adventures.

If you enjoyed this author visit, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your ratings and reviews help us reach more families who are searching for great stories for their kids!

To watch this episode on YouTube, head over to our YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe.

If you are listening to this before Thursday, October 2, 2025, it’s not too late to enter to win our first Season 2 giveaway bundle! Continental U.S. entrants only. Must be 18 or older to win. Enter here.