Welcome to Exquisitely Ever After, a podcast about reading children's literature to cultivate kind, intelligent, and successful kids. Host Christina Phillips-Mattson is a writer, educator, and mother of two little boys who received her Ph.D. in children's and young adult literature from Harvard University. The purpose of this podcast is to help parents, caretakers, and teachers make informed, high-quality book choices for their children by learning how the books we read to our children are affecting their brains, their social-emotional development, and the way they interact with the world around them.