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Season 13
RAR #108: Favorite Picture Books for Ancient History
RAR #107: Dr. Michael Gurian on The Minds of Girls
RAR #106: Connection, Community, and Confidence: What your homeschool needs this fall
RAR# 105: Favorite Early Reader Books (for kids who are learning to read)
RAR #104: Put Those Books Face OUT!
RAR # 103: Excellent Nonfiction Picture Books, Gail Gibbons
RAR #102: What Kids Really Need (and Want), with Dr. Meg Meeker
Previous Seasons
Season 12
- RAR #101: 3 Steps to Connecting with Your Kids this Summer
- RAR #100: Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks, and over 4 Million Downloads
- RAR #99: Meet Lola Dutch (she is just too much!)
- RAR #98: Introducing Kids to Foreign Language through Reading Aloud
- RAR #97: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud with Teens
- RAR #96: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 8 – 12 Year Olds
- RAR #95: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 4-7 Year Olds
- RAR #94: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 0-3 Year Olds
- RAR #93: How to Create a Book Club Culture at Home
- RAR #92: Books Boys Love (that aren’t just books for boys)
- RAR #91: Sharing A Wrinkle in Time with Your Family
- RAR #90: Easter Basket Ideas for Young Readers
- RAR #89: Andrew Pudewa is back!
- RAR #88: Don’t Miss This Book: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
- RAR #87: Books to Celebrate Your Adopted Child, Brooke Cooney
- RAR #86: 5 Authors & Illustrators You Might Not Know About (But Probably Want To!)
- RAR #85: Reading “Messy” Books About Hard Topics with Kids
- RAR #84: Books for Kids Who Don’t Love Reading (Yet)
- RAR #83: Why Read Picture Books with Older Kids?
Season 11
- Answers to Questions about the 31-Day Read-Aloud Challenge
- 31-Day Read-Aloud Challenge
- RAR #82: Why Fidgeting is a Good Sign (and what brain science has to say about reading aloud), Dr. Michael Gurian
- RAR #81: Eavesdropping on the Soul, a conversation with Katherine Paterson
- RAR #80: Fantastic Gifts for Young Readers
- RAR #79: Qualities of Great Books for Kids, with Sarita Holzmann of Sonlight Curriculum
- RAR #78: Favorite Picture Book Treasuries
- RAR #77: What the Scholastic Reading Report Means for You, Andrea Pinkney
- RAR #76: How to make reading aloud the best part of the day
- RAR #75: Delightful, Simple Reading Journals for Kids
- RAR # 74: One thing you won’t regret
- RAR #73: What your kids can do while you read aloud (they’ll probably listen better than ever)
- RAR #72: How to Save a Bad Day
- RAR #71: The Research and Inspiration Behind Fascinating Historical Fiction, Caroline Starr Rose
- RAR #70: How to Find Time to Read as a Busy Mom
- RAR #69: Helen Oxenbury, Behind the Scenes with an Award-Winning Illustrator
- RAR #68: 5 Books to Read Aloud with Teens
- RAR #67: Reading for the Bigger Story, Jonathan Rogers
- RAR #66: Do Audio Books Count as Read-Alouds?
- RAR #65: How to Best Use and Support Your Local Library
- Special Edition: An Exclusive Interview with Jeanne Birdsall & N.D. Wilson
Season 10
- RAR #64: Helping Resistant Readers Fall in Love with Books, Laura Martin
- RAR #63: Introducing Kids to Chesterton, Nancy Carpentier Brown
- RAR #62: Inspiring a Love of Nature Through Books, Greta Eskridge
- RAR #61: Highlights from Read-Aloud Revival Author Access
- RAR #60: Your Job is to Plant the Seed, a conversation with Sally Lloyd Jones
- RAR #59: Books to Make the Whole Family Howl, Maryrose Wood
- RAR #58: History, Heroes and Henty, with Jim Hodges
- RAR #57: How Stories Shaped an Out-of-the-Box Kid, Sally & Nathan Clarkson
- RAR Bonus Episode: Some of the Best Books by Living Authors
Season 09
- How to Make Meaningful Connections with Your Kids in the Coming Year
- RAR #56: What’s at Stake and Why Stories Matter, Jonathan Auxier
- RAR #55: Best Thanksgiving Books – Cultivating a Spirit of Gratitude
- RAR #54: Sharing Experiences through Stories, James Daniels
- RAR #53: Can a Children’s Book Change the World? Linda Sue Park
- RAR Bonus Episode: Melissa Sweet on
the One and Only E.B. White - RAR #52: Bonding Through Books, Tricia Goyer
- RAR #51: The Golden Age of Children’s Books
- RAR #50: How Books Spark Easy Projects & Play
- RAR #49: Why We Should All Be Reading Aloud to Children
- Announcing Season 9 :: RAR Podcast
- The Most Important Part of Teaching Kids to Read
Season 08
- RAR #48: Give Your Child the World, Raising Globally Minded Kids One Book at a Time– Jamie Martin
- RAR #47: How to Read the Classics with Kids (even if you’ve never read them before)
- RAR # 46: Assigned Versus Free Reading
- RAR #45: Our Favorite Picture Books
- RAR #44: Magic and Fear in Children’s Books, N.D. Wilson
- RAR #43: Raising Kids Who Read, Daniel Willingham









