Children’s literature and picture books offer an amazing springboard to helping gifted students understand their world and future. These seemingly simple books have a powerful impact on the wisdom level of gifted children. This session shares an extraordinary collection of books that focus on wisdom across cultures. Divided into Brown’s Categories of Wisdom - Appreciative, Discerning, Behavioral, Communal, Transcendent, and Ethical - these fifty books encourage gifted learners to consider their world and themselves from a new perspective. A curricular grid of teaching ideas applying William’s Model for Creative Thinking, a bibliography, and live music will be provided.