Plato’s Symposium for Kids: The Ladder of Love: Five Walks About Learning to See

What is love-and how does it change the way we see the world?In Plato's Symposium for Kids: The Ladder of Love, young readers are invited to walk alongside Plato as he explores one of his most famous ideas: that love is not just a feeling, but a teacher-one that trains attention, patience, and understanding over time.Written especially for readers ages 9-14, this book transforms Plato's Symposium into five gentle philosophical walks, each one deepening the reader's way of noticing beauty: - Beauty that stops us - Beauty that repeats - Beauty that listens - Beauty that holds many - Beauty that does not fadePlato is imagined walking a circular path in a garden, speaking thoughtfully as a scribe records his words. Nearby, three children sit beneath an olive tree, overhearing fragments, asking questions, and puzzling through ideas together. There are no lectures, no tests, and no right answers-only questions meant to be returned to.This book is part of the Young Minds Living Philosophy series from The Big Ideas Club, created to help children and adults read together, think together, and talk about big ideas without simplifying them away.Each chapter ends with: - open-ended discussion questions - gentle thinking exercises - invitations to notice, wonder, and reflectThis is not a book about romance. It is a book about learning to see-how attention grows, how understanding deepens, and how love matures into wisdom.Perfect for: - curious middle-grade readers - families who read and discuss together - homeschool philosophy and ethics - classrooms focused on thinking, not testingQuestions, not quizzes. Wonder, listen, discuss.