This special issue for teacher training committee members, led by Assistant Professor Kao Ching-Yao of National Taichung University of Education, started with "sustainable reading" and guided teacher trainees to see how reading connects with life experiences, cultural identity, and interdisciplinary creation, allowing aesthetic appreciation to gradually accumulate in reading practice and shaping teacher trainees' imagination of the connection between reading, teaching, and the world.

"Sustainable Reading" is about engaging in dialogue through reading and cultivating global citizens. On December 20, 2025, the Office of Teacher Training and Career Counseling and the Department of Language Education at National Taichung University of Education held a cross-disciplinary aesthetics lecture entitled "Wandering in the Sea of Books: An Aesthetic Journey of Reading." Teachers Lu Chia-Hsien from Renhe Elementary School and Chang Chia-Lu from Chaoxing Elementary School were invited to share their practical methods for promoting reading. The lecture was moderated by Professor Chuang Min-Jen, guiding teacher trainees into the realm of aesthetic education.

Teacher Lu Jiaxian promotes students' independent learning, encouraging children below the middle grade to read physical books, while those in the middle grade and above cultivate dual reading literacy. Starting from life, they observe, try, and practice, using PBL to help children grow in various projects, such as "Little Bunun Tracing Roots," which allows these indigenous children to understand their own culture and origins, observe with their eyes, think with their hearts, and identify themselves through their printmaking and writing.

Teacher Zhang Jialu, employing interdisciplinary thinking, combined laser carving with reading instruction, allowing students to deeply understand the meaning of classic works through dedicated reading. For example, with the book *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*, Teacher Jialu used tokens to have students draw cards and retell the story, and also had them draw pictures to design their own idiom laser carving works. These works were then used repeatedly in language training games. Teacher Jialu also led teachers and students in laser carving on-site, allowing them to choose their favorite books, create images, and thus complete their own unique reading experience.

Where does beauty reside? In the eyes, in the ears, in the heart, and even more so in every touch of reading. And aesthetic education, like dandelion seeds, is gently passed on through these touches, continuing its perpetual journey.