Keeping Childhood Wonder Alive Through Story

About this episode

Elsa Kurt interviews author Christopher Charles Anderson about maintaining childhood wonder through storytelling, focusing on his work related to Frosty the Snowman.

You know that rush of childhood wonder you can almost feel in your chest and how it gets harder to reach as you grow up? We chase that feeling with author Christopher Charles Anderson, who takes a character nearly everyone recognizes and asks a deceptively big question: what keeps the magic alive year after year, and how does Frosty come back every Christmas? We talk about *Frosty and the Magic of Christmas* as both a holiday story and a craft problem. Christopher shares how his screen...

People in this episode

Host: Elsa Kurt

Guest: Christopher Charles Anderson

Topics covered

• childhood wonder
• holiday stories
• magic of Christmas
• storytelling
• craft problems

Keywords

• childhood wonder
• Frosty
• Christmas
• storytelling
• magic

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Frosty and the Magic of Christmas

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