A review by justareadingmama_charly
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids by Sarah MacKenzie

5.0

I loved everything about this book! It was the perfect mix of statistics, personal experiences (from her and others she talked with), and practical advice. I loved the references to other books teaching about the importance of reading and reading aloud and I loved the references to novels and pictures books (it made me want to go read or reread all of them!). I like the way the book list is organized in the back; I'm excited to check out the ones I haven't read with my kids yet and agreed with the ones we have read that they're great ones (I only went through the book list up to my kids' ages).

My favorite part of the book was when she talked about compelling questions, it was a concept that was unique from other books I've read more similar to this one, but also really useful and important. I also felt that it applied to myself as well as to conversations I have with my kids--I want to start keeping a better book journal and asking myself some of these questions as I'm reading to enhance my own experience.

I thought this book was very well done and had such useful and inspiring information in it. Even though I already knew how important it is to read aloud, I still found a lot to inspire me to be better and thought the book was very useful and contained unique information. Definitely a must for our home library!