A review by amanda1988
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids by Sarah MacKenzie

5.0

“A good story gives shape to the human experience and touches us in our innermost places. It picks us up right where we are and leaves us somewhere else—changed, transformed, more awake and alive and aware.”

I Absolutely LOVED this book! I left this book feeling motivated, encouraged, and excited to make reading aloud part of our family norm. I highly recommend you read this book!

You will leave this book with a bigger TBR! The author provides a book list for all ages.

✨What Stood Out:

The author talked about 5 myths we believe about reading aloud to our children. The one myth that stood out was the myth that we have to do a lot of reading aloud to make a difference.

“Here’s where this gets good: ten minutes every other day for an entire year equals thirty hours of reading aloud over the course of a year.”

The author spent a chapter providing readers with 10 compelling questions to ask our children about a book read. These questions were so helpful to me.
One of the questions: “ What is something you don’t want to forget from this book (or from this chapter)?”

✨Quotes:

“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”

“reading aloud with our kids is indeed the best use of our time and energy as parents. It’s more important than just about anything else we can do.”

“If we tell them enough stories, they will have encountered hard questions and practiced living through so many trials, hardships, and unexpected situations that, God willing, they will have what they need to become the heroes of their own stories.”

“Fiction allows us to do something that nothing else quite does. It allows us to enter fully into the lives of human beings.”

“Story makes us fall a little more in love with the world we live in and the people God made to live here with us.”