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

5.0

“We read in the hope that our children will feel the heartbeat of a hero thrumming within them and look to the Heavens and ask, “What great thing have I been created to accomplish?” This book was recommended to me not only as a mom who wants to create passion for reading in my boys, but also as a teacher and how it can challenge what We English teachers do to reading in the classroom. I highly recommend it to parents and teachers- “ a sense of duty is killing our kids’ ability to read for pleasure.” It also comes with loved book lists that the author, mother of six, has used in her home as read alouds. “Either we create a space where reading is something that is done for the joy of it, where the imagination is cultivated and allowed to wander and stretch and grow, or we deaden our Children’s natural love for the written word.”