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“I am a Sarah Mackenzie and Read-Aloud Revival enthusiast… and a MAJOR FAN!”
-Tomie dePaola
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Season 15
RAR #146: The Astonishing Impact of Louisa May Alcott
RAR #145: The Importance of Reading at Whim and Developing Your Own Taste, Alan Jacobs
RAR Special Edition: The Woman Who Gave us Miss Rumphius
RAR #144: Take the 31-Day Read-Aloud Challenge
RAR #143: Kate DiCamillo is Back!
RAR #142: What We’re Reading This Winter ❄️
RAR #141: Why Re-Reading is Possibly the Best Reading
RAR #140: How to Fold Poetry into Your Routine, with Sally Thomas
RAR #139: Kindness Over Curiosity: Favorite Books Featuring Differently Abled Characters
RAR #138: How to Choose Books for Your Kids
RAR #137: Why Your Kids Love Graphic Novels (and which we like best!)
RAR #136: If You Want Your Kids to Love Reading, Try This
RAR #135: What We’re Reading This Fall (and an invitation 💌)
RAR #134: Author Access with Sally Lloyd-Jones (author of The Jesus Storybook Bible)
RAR #133: Books Take You Places (and some favorite seaside titles)
RAR #132: Books for Teens, and Why YA is a Genre (not a reading level)
RAR #131: Books About the Moon Landing
RAR #130: Reading Aloud as an Obstinate Act of Love, with Meghan Cox Gurdon
RAR #129: Jim Weiss: Storytime with Jim Weiss (and how to read aloud better!)
RAR #128: Read with Us – The Secret Garden
RAR #127: More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy: Introverting (and Extroverting) as a Mom
RAR #126: Creating a Book Club Culture at Home (Part 2)
RAR #125: Master Class, Creating a Book Club Culture at Home (part 1)
RAR #124: Camille Andros on Being a Mom AND a Writer
RAR #123: A Family Story for Easter, with Special Guest: Arnold Ytreeide
RAR #122: Picture Book Biographies We Love
RAR #121: Kate DiCamillo on Reading Aloud for Connection
For Narnia and for Aslan! C.S. Lewis’s stepson, Douglas Gresham
RAR #120: Focus on What Matters Most (psst, that’s your relationships with your kids)
Read with us: Snowflake Bentley
RAR #119: Delighting in Your Own Reading Life, with Anne Bogel
Announcing the 2019 31-Day Read-Aloud Challenge
Previous Seasons
Season 14
- RAR #118: A’s to Your Q’s
- RAR #117: Christmas Novels to Read Aloud with the Whole Family
- RAR #116: Reading Aloud to Babies, Connection Parenting, and Getting Books into the Hands of Every Child
- Audio Book Deals Not to Miss
- RAR #115: Are you Making this Mistake When you Read Aloud With Your Kids?
- RAR #114: Writing the Book You Needed as a Child, a conversation with Susan Tan
- RAR #113: Why Reading Aloud to a Wide Range of Ages is Difficult (and How to Do It Without Losing Your Mind)
- RAR #112: How an Audio Book is Made, with audio book narrator and producer, Lyssa Browne
- RAR #111: When You’re Constantly Interrupted during Read-Alouds
- RAR #110: S.D. Smith Live
Season 13
- RAR #109: How to Take Your Kids Around the World through Picture Books
- 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
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