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Read-Aloud Revival ®RAR #273: Imagining the Childhood of C.S. Lewis, with Judith McQuoid🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Many of you will already know that I am a huge fan of The Chronicles of Narnia. Today, I want to introduce my fellow Narnia lovers to a new book that jumped right off the shelf as soon as I saw it. Giant is a middle-grade novel by debut author Judith McQuoid where we meet Davy, a fictional working class boy from East Belfast, Ireland who is sent to work in the wealthy Lewis household in 1908. There, he forges a friendship with Jacks–as C.S. Lewis wa...
2025-10-1638 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #272: Giving Flora Her Voice with Astrid Sheckels🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Astrid Sheckels continues the wit and whimsy of childhood through her marvelous and magnificent illustrations and storytelling. You might recognize her from the Hector Fox and Friends series or Sea Dog and Sea Dog Rescue, and she created the gorgeous cover and interior illustrations for Beyond Mulberry Glen by Millie Florence. Today we’re chatting about her new book, Flora and the Jazzers, which Kirkus called “sumptuously illustrated” in their starred review and I couldn’t agree more. This jazz-age Cinderella story starring...
2025-10-0247 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #271: An Inside Look at Writing & Illustrating a Picture Book with Katie Wray Schon🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Today, I have a very special treat for you! This spring, our publishing imprint here at RAR, Waxwing Books, celebrated the release of Painting Wonder: How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien at one of my favorite bookstores, Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas.I had so much fun talking to Painting Wonder’s incredibly talented author and illustrator, Katie Wray Schon, about this picture book biography of the fascinating woman behind the iconic illustrations in the works of C. S. L...
2025-08-2145 min
Roots and Roofs - Success in Real Estate, Entrepreneurship and Motherhood28. Running a Real Estate Business with Four Kids and Your Spouse with Sarah PierceIn this episode, Mackenzie is joined by Sarah Pierce, a real estate agent and mom of four based in the Omaha area. Sarah shares what it’s like running a growing real estate business with her husband while raising four young kids and how they’ve built a business that aligns with their family’s needs. From social media strategies to scheduling with military life, Sarah dives into the mindset and systems behind her success.What You’ll Learn:How Sarah and her husband Brad divide roles in their real estate businessWhy they’re committed to a 30-hour...
2025-07-2331 min
Hospitality Daily PodcastHotelData.com is Live: Sarah McCay Tams & Josiah Mackenzie on the Power of Hotel Performance Data and StorytellingIn this episode, Sarah McCay Tams, Head of Editorial at Actabl, joins Josiah Mackenzie to discuss the launch of HotelData.com and insights from their new 2025-2026 budgeting guide. The conversation explores how hotels are managing a gap between budgeted and actual RevPAR performance, while maintaining ADR discipline and successfully hitting gross operating profit targets through strategic cost management. Sarah also shares her journey from radio journalism to hospitality media and explains how data storytelling connects to the human side of hospitality operations.Resources:Learn more about hotel labor managementLearn more about Actabl's products, ProfitSword and...
2025-07-1725 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #267: A Conversation About Belovedness with Emily Wilson Hussem🎄 Join us for Christmas School →If you’ve been around the Read-Aloud Revival for a minute, you might know that C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is one of my all-time favorite books. It’s the book I have read and re-read the most, and it’s also the source of some of my favorite read-aloud memories with my young adult son.Today’s guest has written a book in a similar style with the modern woman in mind, and in this episode we talk about how the en...
2025-06-2646 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #260: The Woman Behind Narnia’s Iconic Illustrations🎄 Join us for Christmas School →What comes to mind when you think of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?There’s a good chance a lot of us are seeing very similar pictures. We’re seeing images that swept us into the whimsical world of wonder beyond the wardrobe (and into the Shire). The beloved images of these childhood stories remain with us. But it’s likely we don’t know much about the woma...
2025-03-2043 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #256: My New Favorite Book for the Whole Family🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Gather your aspiring writers and littlest book lovers for this episode. I am so excited to welcome back author Millie Florence to talk about the beautiful book we created together, Beyond Mulberry Glen.Millie and I are chatting about the making of the book from inspiration to final draft with a series of fun questions from what scene was the hardest to write to what character she’d want to hang out with for an afternoon.Beyond M...
2024-12-2642 min
The Poppy C PodREWIND: Lady Gaga - Hollywood BABYThe Poppy C Pod goes GAGA - Part Three!In our brand new REWIND adventure, Sarah & Jacob are travelling back to follow Lady Gaga's entire musical journey from the very beginning, and we explore the ICON's impact on Poppy C.Expect everything from music, fashion, memes, and GAY RIGHTS!In the third and final instalment of our Lady Gaga REWIND series, we follow Gaga from 2018 as she enters her Hollywood era with 'A Star Is Born', puts her beef with Madonna on hold, and enters the world of Chromatica amidst a worldwide pandemic...
2024-11-281h 08Read-Aloud Revival ®RAR #253: How We Choose Books to Recommend at RAR🎄 Join us for Christmas School →How do you know a good book when you see it?I remember walking into the big, beautiful children’s section at the library with my oldest, who was a baby. I wanted to find books to read aloud to her, but it was hard to know which ones we would love. That longing to find good books for my children was the spark that eventually became the Read-Aloud Revival podcast and RAR Premium community, where we’re always trying to find and s...
2024-10-311h 01
The Poppy C PodREWIND: Lady Gaga - The Fame GameThe Poppy C Pod goes GAGA - Part ONE!In our brand new REWIND adventure, Sarah & Jacob are travelling back to follow Lady Gaga's entire musical journey from the very beginning, and we explore the ICON's impact on Poppy C. Expect everything from music, fashion, memes, and GAY RIGHTS!In this first episode, we look at Gaga's humble beginnings and her schooldays as an underdog, all the way to her mainstream breakthrough and her stratospheric ascent to ICON status... alongside the meaty pop culture beef that came along with it.
2024-10-3154 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #252: The Making of Because Barbara🎄 Join us for Christmas School →A library should be a kind of paradise, don’t you agree? Author and illustrator Barbara Cooney certainly thought so. Barbara Cooney was an extraordinary author and illustrator of over 100 children’s books with stories that span the world, from the shores of Greece to the mountains of Appalachia. The more I learned about Barbara, the more I wanted to tell the story of this beautiful artist who, in every aspect of her life–from raising four children to traveling to gardening to winning awards for her illustra...
2024-10-1740 min
Ignite An Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World by Sarah MackenziePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817857to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World
Author: Sarah Mackenzie
Narrator: Sarah Mackenzie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 18 minutes
Release date: September 9, 2024
Genres: Non-fiction
Publisher's Summary:
“Will intrigue many adult readers as well as children, particularly those familiar with Cooney’s timeless picture books.” -Booklist Starred Review Legendary picture book creator Barbara Cooney once noticed that the library in her little town by the sea needed attention. A library, she knew, should be a kind of paradise. And because Barbara did whatever she set her mind to, she made it one...
2024-09-0918 minAccess Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Kids, Non-fictionBecause Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World by Sarah MackenziePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817857to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World
Author: Sarah Mackenzie
Narrator: Sarah Mackenzie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 18 minutes
Release date: September 9, 2024
Genres: Non-fiction
Publisher's Summary:
“Will intrigue many adult readers as well as children, particularly those familiar with Cooney’s timeless picture books.” -Booklist Starred Review Legendary picture book creator Barbara Cooney once noticed that the library in her little town by the sea needed attention. A library, she knew, should be a kind of paradise. And because Barbara did whatever she set her mind to, she made it one...
2024-09-0918 min
The Industrial Talk Podcast NetworkSarah Causey with Implexus LabIndustrial Talk is onsite at OMG, Q1 Meeting and talking to Sarah Causey, CEO of Implexus Lab about "Digital Twin - Real efficiency, real savings to optimizing your building assets".
Scott MacKenzie hosts an industrial podcast from the OMG Q1 meeting in Reston, Virginia, celebrating industry professionals. Sarah Causey from Implexus Labs discusses her transition from architecture to digital twins, emphasizing the importance of integrating live data from IoT for more efficient building management. She highlights the misconception that energy consumption decreased during the pandemic and explains how digital twins can optimize energy use by creating dynamic systems responsive to o...
2024-09-0420 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #248: Nurturing Creative Dreams (Your Child’s and Your Own)🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Do you have a child who dreams of being a writer? Or maybe it’s your dream? How do you support those dreams and foster creativity while also raising kids and running a household?Today, I’m delighted to welcome back author Laura Martin, who’s giving us her very best advice for how to nurture your child’s creative dreams and your own.Laura Martin is the author of some of my very favorite page-turners for kids, including The Edge of Extinction...
2024-08-2244 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #247: Why We Love Historical Fiction, Anna Rose Johnson🎄 Join us for Christmas School →We recently took a poll in RAR Premium about favorite reading genres, and it turns out that historical fiction isn’t just my favorite genre, but it’s the favorite of many of you as well.Today, I’ve invited historical fiction lover and award-winning author Anna Rose Johnson to join me to discuss just what it is about historical fiction that draws us in. We’re also chatting about the inspiration for her stories, her research process, and what her parents did to...
2024-08-0841 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #246: Sally Clarkson’s Advice to Her Younger Self🎄 Join us for Christmas School →If you’re a homeschooling mom, chances are good that you’re familiar with Sally Clarkson. She is one of the most beloved names in homeschooling worldwide, and it’s no wonder why. She homeschooled her own four kids to adulthood and has been writing and encouraging homeschool moms for decades. She also happens to be one of our most frequently requested guests here at Read-Aloud Revival.So we have a treat for you today! A few years bac...
2024-07-2553 min
Deliberate Motherhood Podcast148. The 'Enough' Trap with Sarah MackenzieToday we have invited one of our homeschool heroes, Sarah Mackenzie here to speak with you and bring the hope, because that's what she's done for us for YEARS.Sarah's the author of Teaching from Rest, The Read-Aloud Family and several picture books, including Because Barbara, which officially released March 5th of this year! She's the host of the Read-Aloud Revival Podcast, which has been downloadedover 14 million times in more than 160 countries, and is the publisher at the boutique publishing house, Waxwing Books.Her best work, though, is at home i...
2024-07-0154 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #244: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can’t, Erin Loechner🎄 Join us for Christmas School →How can our families cultivate healthy relationships with technology? We’re all trying to impose limits on how, when, and why our kids interact with technology. But in our increasingly tech-driven world, it can be hard to navigate.Writer Erin Loechner is joining me on the podcast to discuss her new book, The Opt-Out Family, and to offer her life-giving take on building lasting connections with your kids. We discuss everything from the importance of boredom to Erin’s...
2024-06-2745 min
Simply Convivial: Biblical Homemaking, Homeschooling & Mom Life—Without BurnoutLive a full life WITH your kids - featuring Sarah MackenzieTune in to this conversation between Sarah Mackenzie and Mystie Winckler all about Sarah's latest picture book. Sarah also shares about why she started a new publishing house for picture books and what life lessons we can learn from Barbara Cooney.Find Sarah's latest picture book here:https://amzn.to/3wRVvkJVisit Waxwing Books:https://waxwingbooks.com/Sarah is the author of Teaching from Rest, The Read-Aloud Family, and several new picture books, including the just-released picture book biography, Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World. She's the host of the Read-Aloud...
2024-06-0417 min
Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done - Homemaking, Life Organization, and Mom Productivity TipsLive a full life WITH your kids - featuring Sarah MackenzieTune in to this conversation between Sarah Mackenzie and Mystie Winckler all about Sarah's latest picture book. Sarah also shares about why she started a new publishing house for picture books and what life lessons we can learn from Barbara Cooney.Find Sarah's latest picture book here:https://amzn.to/3wRVvkJVisit Waxwing Books:https://waxwingbooks.com/Sarah is the author of Teaching from Rest, The Read-Aloud Family, and several new picture books, including the just-released picture book biography, Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World. She's the host of the Read-Aloud...
2024-06-0417 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #241: How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, with Ken Ludwig🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Are you intimidated by the thought of teaching Shakespeare? You’re not alone. A lot of people struggle to connect to Shakespeare’s work, even if they really want their kids to be familiar with his plays. What if I told you there's a way to make teaching Shakespeare to your kids enjoyable for them……AND delightful for you? In today’s episode, Ken Ludwig, celebrated playwright and auth...
2024-05-021h 09
True Presence: Helping Overwhelmed Catholic Moms Design a life of Purpose and Presence | a Catholic PodcastHow to Love your Catholic Homeschool Life with Sarah Mackenzie of Read-Aloud RevivalDo you ever feel overwhelmed by the idea of Catholic homeschooling? Ever wonder if you're doing enough? This episode cuts to the heart of homeschooling for YOUR unique family. Sarah Mackenzie of Read-Aloud Revival joins us in a delightfully humourous episode about all the ins and outs of loving your homeschool life. Redesign your days in the True Presence Membership: What is the True Presence Membership? The True Presence Membership is a time freedom membership for Catholic moms who are ready for the ultimate life reset. If you always feel like...
2024-02-2245 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #237: How Fairy Tales Re-Enchant Us🎄 Join us for Christmas School →What are fairy tales? Why do we love them so much? And why do these stories continue to capture the imaginations of countless generations?To help me answer those questions, I’m welcoming author Sarah Arthur to the podcast.Personally, I fell in love with Sarah’s writing through A Light So Lovely, on the spiritual legacy of Madeleine L’Engle. And when I found out she was working on a young adult fantasy, and that it was a sort of love letter to fairy tales...
2024-01-1157 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #234: Encouraging Creativity: Insights and Inspiration from Author Millie Florence🎄 Join us for Christmas School →I want to introduce you to one of my new favorite authors.She's younger than most published authors. In fact, she says she decided to publish her first book at nine years old. When she was 10, she attended her first writing conference. When she was 13, she self published her first book. She was homeschooled. You probably could have already guessed that. And she has been on a roll ever since.Now she's 20 and she's making books I know your families are going...
2023-10-2638 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #233: Audrey is Back, and She’s Answering Your Questions!🎄 Join us for Christmas School →By far the most popular episode we’ve ever done here on Read Aloud Revival is the episode with my oldest daughter, Audrey, when we looked back together on homeschooling from her vantage point as a sophomore in college.We discussed what worked, what didn’t, and about our homeschool experience in general.And last spring, at the Great Homeschool Conventions, you all kept asking me when Audrey would be back on the podcast.She’s now about...
2023-09-2842 min
Hospitality Daily PodcastMastering Media: How I Became An In-Demand Travel & Hospitality Expert For TV, Newspapers & Social Media - Sarah DandashyHow can you tell stories and create content that gets you attention and media coverage? In this episode, you'll learn from someone who has cracked the code on this to earn hundreds of thousands of social media followers and is an in-demand guest expert on shows such as the Kelly Clarkson Show and GoodDay LA and networks from ABC to CBS to NBC and has been featured everywhere from The New York Times to Readers Digest.Sarah Dandashy started her hospitality career as a concierge - work that she ended up winning an award for...
2023-09-1530 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #231: Homeschooling with Babies and Toddlers🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Today, I’m sharing another session from the Great Homeschool Conventions in 2023 all about homeschooling with babies and toddlers.If you are homeschooling with babies and toddlers underfoot, this one's for you. Or if you have a friend who is homeschool with babies and toddlers, this one's for her, so please share it!Full disclosure: My favorite part about going to the Great Homeschool Conventions is all the babies I get to snuggle and hold. So I created a session that would e...
2023-08-311h 02Read-Aloud Revival ®RAR #229: How a 25¢ Spiral Notebook Can Change Your Homeschool🎄 Join us for Christmas School →During my hardest year of homeschooling, I had a 12, 10, 8, and 1 year old, and twin newborns. Life was… a little chaotic.One week, a friend of mine who had homeschooled all three of her kids asked, “So how's homeschooling going?”And naturally, I burst into tears. I’m not sure she saw that coming. But then, maybe she did. Anyway, she asked me how I was keeping the kids on track for their schoolwork and how much they could do...
2023-08-0331 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #228: Reading for Fun is More Important Than You Think🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Imagine that your child is grown up, and his or her reading life looks a lot like yours does right now.How do you feel about that? Is your reading life something you want your kids to emulate when they’re adults? What if we built for ourselves the kind of reading life that we’d be delighted for our own kids to imitate? Novelist Katherine Paterson once wrote that “a fondness for b...
2023-07-2034 minRead-Aloud Revival ®Best of RAR: Penderwicks Fans Rejoice!🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Today, in this Best Of Read Aloud Revival episode, we’re revisiting a conversation about a series I absolutely adore: The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall.The Penderwicks follows the escapades of four spirited sisters, Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty. The books are a modern nod to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and they’ve won tons of awards including the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, several ALA Notable Children’s Book Awards, and the Massachusetts Children’s Book Award.Since record...
2023-07-0653 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #224: Cozy Couch Nature Study🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Today, I’m sharing a conversation with my friend and colleague, Cindy West.Cindy teaches at No Sweat Nature Study, a homeschool nature study program that takes the guesswork out of nature study by teaching your kids directly. Cindy is also the host of the No Sweat Nature Study podcast, which features short episodes about nature. (My kids absolutely love it!)Cindy and I recently had a conversation for her community about how to use picture books to teach nature study and tod...
2023-03-3043 minRead-Aloud Revival ®(Fixed!) Bonus: Join us for an E.B. White SpringI have a theory that if I were to ask a hundred of today’s children’s book authors and illustrators to name a book that had a profound impact on them, I bet an unusually large number of those authors and illustrators would mention the work of E.B. White.I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard authors say that E.B. White’s books have made such a huge difference in their lives and writing.I’m a big E.B. White fan myself, and while...
2023-03-1743 min
Read-Aloud Revival ®Bonus: Join us for an E.B. White Spring!Order your copy of A Little More Beautiful: The Story of a a Garden at alittlemorebeautiful.comI have a theory that if I were to ask a hundred of today’s children’s book authors and illustrators to name a book that had a profound impact on them, I bet an unusually large number of those authors and illustrators would mention the work of E.B. White.I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard authors say that E.B. White’s books have made such a huge differenc...
2023-03-1643 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #219: Yes, You Should Read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter🎄 Join us for Christmas School →The Long Winter is the sixth book in the Little House on the Prairie series. It was first published in 1940, and is an autobiographical novel. Laura Ingalls Wilder based the series on her actual life as a child, settling the west. This particular story, The Long Winter, was set in the southwestern Dakota Territory during the severe winter of 1880-1881 when Laura was 14 years old. Even if you haven’t read the rest of the Little House books, I think you want to read this one. You can read any of t...
2023-01-0534 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #215: Whimsy and the Power of Childhood Reading🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Chances are good that you’re already familiar with the picture book sensation turned childhood classic, Bear Snores On.But do you know the woman who wrote it?Karma Wilson has come up with some of her best ideas while eating ice cream or visiting the zoo. She was saved as a child, in a way, by C.S. Lewis’s Narnia. And… she homeschooled her own kids for many years as a way to ensure that they would love reading as m...
2022-10-1333 min
Strategic Families38 - An Enjoyable Way to Engage Your Kids (with Sarah Mackenzie)In this episode, Graham interviews Sarah Mackenzie, founder of the Read Aloud Revival, an amazing effort to help parents help their kids learn to love to read. She and her husband Andrew have 6 children. You may also know Sarah from her highly acclaimed book Teaching From Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace. In this interview, we dive into the beauty and benefits of reading aloud to your kids (hint: it's way more beneficial than you may think!), including one of my favorite benefits: how it can help us build family culture through the shared experience of story. Sarah shares...
2022-10-0939 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #213: Sweep: A Story You Don’t Want to Miss🎄 Join us for Christmas School →It’s Victorian London in the late 1800’s… and it’s been five years since the Sweep disappeared.Orphaned and alone, Nan Sparrow has no other choice but to work for a ruthless chimney sweep named Wilkie Crudd. She spends her days doing dangerous work–sweeping out chimneys.The job is thankless, but with her wits and will, Nan has managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again.This time, though, she gets stuck in a chimney fire.She wakes to find herself un...
2022-09-1534 min
The Arts of Language PodcastEpisode 337: A Visit with Sarah MackenzieAs reading is an important language art, Andrew and Julie are thrilled to welcome a fellow lover of reading Sarah Mackenzie. Sarah is a homeschool mom, author, and the founder of Read-Aloud Revival, which announced the launch of its own boutique publishing imprint: Waxwing Books. In this episode Sarah talks about the publisher's first book, A Little More Beautiful: The Story of a Garden. As the author of this children's book, Sarah shares her insight on what makes a classic children's book and provides background on her experience writing the book.
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2022-08-3100 min
Homeschool Conversations with Humility and DoxologyReading, Relationships, and Restfully Homeschooling (with Sarah Mackenzie)Sarah Mackenzie joins us for this special bonus episode of the Homeschool Conversations podcast! If you’re a book-loving homeschool mom, you probably already know and love Sarah. Her books and podcast are beloved by many, and her encouragement has been an integral part of my own homeschool journey for many years. So it made me absolutely giddy to get to chat with her recently for this special bonus conversation!
We talked about how we know if we’re doing enough as homeschool moms, how to fight the worries that we might be failing our kids, and how t...
2022-08-1144 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR#209: What Worked? What Didn’t? Looking Back on Homeschooling with my 20-Year-Old Daughter🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Early on, pretty much everyone in my world told me we were making a huge mistake in homeschooling.It was weird, it was unknown to them, and of course, we are afraid of things that are weird and unknown. I actually didn’t know anyone in my personal life who was homeschooling.I read some blogs and books (of course!), but I just had a very strong hunch that we should do this home education thing. So we did, and I’m so glad.
2022-06-2351 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #205: Help! My Child Doesn’t Like Reading🎄 Join us for Christmas School →When Mandy called in to ask about her daughter, who likes to be read to, but doesn’t really enjoy reading herself, I was all ears.If you can relate, consider: when your child was 2, 3, 4 … did he/she like being read to? Most small children LOVE being read to. They climb right into your lap and relish every minute.It’s about the story, yes, but it’s also about the connection. We really, really want our kids to love reading. So naturally, w...
2022-05-1226 min
Social Media TherapyWhat it's like living with Bipolar Disorder with Mackenzie Stewart from Life At 23kThis episode is all about Mackenzie and her experience with Bipolar. Right before Mackenzie received her diagnosis, she was working at a doggy daycare, which “for a lot of people, they’re like “it’s a dream job.” It’s so amazing, and actually very stressful. I loved it.”Then one day she was, “terrified to walk in the door and I would leave work and I would seriously like sit in my car in the parking lot.No, like I would just sit there totally catatonic like I could just not have any stimulus. And...
2022-04-1356 min
Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done - Homemaking, Life Organization, and Mom Productivity TipsSarah Mackenzie's Time Management Tips!How to handle overwhelm: answeroverwhelm.comMoms have a lot to do. Sarah Mackenzie is no exception. While homeschooling her six kids, she also runs Readaloudrevival.com - a podcast and community to help your family fall in love with reading together. This quick conversation with Sarah will give you ideas you can apply to your own life to find time for what matters most and not let the mundane chores crowd out reading and conversation.
2021-12-2209 min
Simply Convivial: Biblical Homemaking, Homeschooling & Mom Life—Without BurnoutSarah Mackenzie's Time Management Tips!How to handle overwhelm: answeroverwhelm.comMoms have a lot to do. Sarah Mackenzie is no exception. While homeschooling her six kids, she also runs Readaloudrevival.com - a podcast and community to help your family fall in love with reading together. This quick conversation with Sarah will give you ideas you can apply to your own life to find time for what matters most and not let the mundane chores crowd out reading and conversation.
2021-12-2209 min
Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done - Homemaking, Life Organization, and Mom Productivity TipsDear mom who struggles with perfectionism - with Sarah Mackenzie!Free Overwhelm Workshop: answeroverwhelm.comSarah Mackenzie, founder of Readaloudrevival.com, is one busy mama. She and her husband homeschool their six kids - including twin boys! - and run a thriving online community and podcast.How does she do it? How does she keep her plates spinning? Is the ever-enthusiastic Sarah ever overwhelmed? You bet. Tune in to find out how she handles it and what she tells herself when faced with an overwhelming to do list.
2021-12-2210 min
Simply Convivial: Biblical Homemaking, Homeschooling & Mom Life—Without BurnoutDear mom who struggles with perfectionism - with Sarah Mackenzie!Free Overwhelm Workshop: answeroverwhelm.comSarah Mackenzie, founder of Readaloudrevival.com, is one busy mama. She and her husband homeschool their six kids - including twin boys! - and run a thriving online community and podcast.How does she do it? How does she keep her plates spinning? Is the ever-enthusiastic Sarah ever overwhelmed? You bet. Tune in to find out how she handles it and what she tells herself when faced with an overwhelming to do list.
2021-12-2210 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #192: Help! My Kids Hate Narration🎄 Join us for Christmas School →When my kids were young, I tried narration in my homeschool.But instead of working how it was supposed to, it made my oldest daughter freeze with panic. She actually started hating books she had previously loved. Read-aloud time became fraught. And the quality of her education suffered for it.In today’s episode, I’m diving deep into the Charlotte Mason (CM) idea of narration, and offering an idea for what to do if narration simply isn’t a good fit for your family. In this...
2021-11-0942 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #191: Helping your ADHD or Dyslexic Child Love Reading🎄 Join us for Christmas School →If you have a child with ADHD or dyslexia and want him/her to love reading, this episode is for you. I’m sharing tips and tricks to help kids with ADHD enjoy reading and read-alouds in this episode of The Read-Aloud Revival.You’ll hear…audiobooks: help or hindrance?what worked for one of Sarah’s dyslexic kidsSarah’s go-to resource for all things related to homeschooling a child with ADHDFind the rest of the show notes at https://readaloudrevival.com/191/
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2021-10-1917 min
Live Well AnywayA Mother's Guide to Raising Herself with Sarah BraggThis week on Live Well Anyway, host MacKenzie Koppa chats with podcaster and author Sarah Bragg about her new book A Mother’s Guide to Raising Herself. As veteran podcasters, Sarah and MacKenzie talk about how podcasting has changed and how they both shifted the direction of their platforms. Then they dive into the content of Sarah’s book and all things motherhood and personal growth, as well as Sarah’s different feelings writing this book as opposed to her first one.
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2021-08-111h 01Read-Aloud Revival ®RAR #161: Becoming Your Child’s Mentor and Awaking Wonder, Sally Clarkson🎄 Join us for Christmas School →What would happen if you decided to be your child’s mentor, rather than their teacher? What if you awakened their wonder and curiosity, so that they became the kind of people who thirst for knowledge and understanding?What if you could fall in love with homeschooling your kids?In this episode, Sally Clarkson and I continue a conversation we started over on her podcast a few weeks ago. We discuss how Sally translated her own boredom with traditional education in order to find a differe...
2020-08-2133 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #160: Not Killing the Love of Reading🎄 Join us for Christmas School →We need a drumroll today, because on the podcast we’re revealing all of our autumn picks for RAR Premium. I’m also answering podcast listener Corrie’s question about how to preserve her son’s love of reading. It’s easy to slip into schooly habits that kill our kids’ love of reading– so how can we help preserve our children’s love of reading even after the school year starts?Find the rest of the show notes at https://readaloudrevival.com/160/.
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2020-08-1144 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #153: Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, 8th Edition🎄 Join us for Christmas School →In today’s episode, I’m joined by the woman who recently faced the daunting challenge of updating Jim Trelease’s much beloved Read-Aloud Handbook.Cyndi Giorgis takes us behind the scenes of updating The Read-Aloud Handbook, and some of the interesting (and most surprising!) bits what she learned during the process.In this episode, you’ll hear:what’s in the Read-Aloud Handbook‘s whole new chapter (it’s a good one)updates about audiobooks and other technologythe most important thing Cyndi learned in her rese...
2020-05-0540 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #151: It’s a Story… So What? Barb Rosenstock🎄 Join us for Christmas School →When is a story worth telling? And why are the best stories in history seen through the lens of a single human being? We’re diving into those questions to day with one of the most talented and effervescent authors I know: Barb Rosenstock.I recommend every single one of Barb’s picture book biographies. Listen to this episode and you’ll know why. You’ll find links to her books at the bottom of this post.In this episode, you’ll hear:the magic of “So what?”… just w...
2020-04-0737 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #149: Keeping Up with Advanced Readers, Colleen Kessler🎄 Join us for Christmas School →If you have a gifted, twice-exceptional, or advanced reader, this episode is for you. Today I’m chatting with Colleen Kessler of Raising Lifelong Leaners. A gifted specialist and mother of her own gifted and twice-exceptional kids, Colleen understands the challenges of connecting advanced readers with books…… and the challenges that arise when your advanced reader can read anything, but isn’t emotionally ready to have free reign at the library.In this episode, you’ll hear:what to do when your kids can read “older” books, when you kno...
2020-03-0941 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR Special Edition: The Woman Who Gave us Miss Rumphius🎄 Join us for Christmas School →I want to introduce you to a remarkable woman. She won two Caldecott Awards, illustrated more than 100 books during her career, raised four children, and lived life with unique zest and liveliness.You may recognize her illustrations in any of the following books, including my own favorite, Miss Rumphius, and one of her Caldecott winners, The Ox-Cart Man.Barbara Cooney was a gift to the world, and in this special edition podcast, I want to introduce you to the woman behind these magnificent books. In this e...
2020-01-0628 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #143: Kate DiCamillo is Back!🎄 Join us for Christmas School →That’s right … Kate DiCamillo is back! And what she has to say is so good, you might find yourself listening more than once.In this new episode, Kate and I chat about her newest book, Beverly, Right Here, and we also discuss why parents and teachers so often try to quantify what our kids are getting from books. We have some ideas about how we could better help kids develop their own robust reading life.I also answer a listener question about how to rea...
2019-12-0943 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #139: Kindness Over Curiosity: Favorite Books Featuring Differently Abled Characters🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Is there a better way to nurture empathy and compassion than through books? That’s the question we address in this episode with special guest, Courtney Westlake. Courtney’s daughter, Brenna, was born with a skin condition that makes her appear “different” to many people. On today’s show, Courtney shares not just her family’s experience, but also how we can teach our kids kindness and understanding when it comes to differences.In this episode, you’ll hear: how to help kids grow in empa...
2019-10-1540 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #134: Author Access with Sally Lloyd-Jones (author of The Jesus Storybook Bible)🎄 Join us for Christmas School →In this very special episode of the Read-Aloud Revival, we’re sharing an Author Access with the wonderful Sally Lloyd Jones.This was an event celebrating her book Goldfish on Vacation, which we read together as a community in RAR Premium. Sally even reads aloud to us in this one (twice!)In this episode, you’ll hear: beautiful tips for young writerswhich was the most challenging Bible story for her to writesomething that means even more to her as a writer than medals and...
2019-08-061h 09Read-Aloud Revival ®RAR #130: Reading Aloud as an Obstinate Act of Love, with Meghan Cox Gurdon🎄 Join us for Christmas School →In our culture today, is reading aloud an ‘obstinate act of love?’ Meghan Cox Gurdon, this week’s guest and author of The Enchanted Hour, believes so.Meghan is the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book reviewer and says her five kids were a built-in focus group.In this episode, you’ll hear:the power of reading books again and againthe value of conversations around booksis reading aloud real reading?I also answer a listener question about how to continue reading aloud throughout...
2019-06-1142 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #124: Camille Andros on Being a Mom AND a Writer🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Today I want to introduce you to the author of some of my new favorite picture books, Camille Andros.Camille is a writer, a traveler, a former EMT, and a mom of six. Yep, six. (So obviously, we’re kindred spirits, since I have six, too.) 😉In this episode, you’ll hear:about her writing process and how she makes time to writehow deceptively simple picture book writing appears, when it really isn’t so simple at alla positively serendipitous story about her travels in Greece…F...
2019-03-1234 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #116: Reading Aloud to Babies, Connection Parenting, and Getting Books into the Hands of Every Child🎄 Join us for Christmas School →We say it often here at the Read-Aloud Revival: sharing books with our kids is all about connection. This is true for all ages, but today we’re especially going to talk about the importance of reading aloud to babies.Our guest today goes so far as to say that our effectiveness as parents is in direct proportion to the strength of the bond that we have with our child. This is good stuff!In this new episode of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast, Pam Leo shares her wisdom...
2018-11-1341 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #114: Writing the Book You Needed as a Child, a conversation with Susan Tan🎄 Join us for Christmas School →I met author, Susan Tan, face to face on my summer trip to Boston. Her middle-grade books about Cilla Lee-Jenkins have become favorites of mine to recommend, and she was every bit as fun as I thought she’d be!She’s also incredibly smart, and she’s writing wonderful books for our kids. On today’s Read-Aloud Revival podcast, Susan Tan and I talk about living a reading and writing life.This episode is for aspiring writers, those who want to see more kids reflecte...
2018-10-3040 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #110: S.D. Smith Live🎄 Join us for Christmas School →You might know S.D. Smith as the author of the Green Ember series of books. He also happens to be hilarious – which makes this episode so much fun!At all five Great Homeschool Conventions in 2018, Sarah Mackenzie interviewed S.D. Smith live on stage. At one point, he flipped the whole thing on its head and interviewed Sarah. Hilarity ensued, and somehow they even managed to have a bit of serious conversation.Plus a secret is revealed: Did you know that S.D. named a chara...
2018-10-0248 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #103: Excellent Nonfiction Picture Books, Gail Gibbons🎄 Join us for Christmas School →I'm willing to bet that you are familiar with Gail Gibbons's work. Not only is she incredibly prolific, she is just one of those authors who becomes our go-to when it comes to learning with our kids. Gail Gibbons is the author of more than 170 books for kids. Primarily a non-fiction author, her signature style includes engaging illustrations and carefully researched topics.In this episode, you’ll hear:why Gail loves making non-fiction for kidshow she manages to fit such big topics b...
2018-07-1434 min
Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker#56: Reading Aloud to Your Kids (with guest Sarah MacKenzie)Literacy and a vast vocabulary are very important attributes for your kids to have as they grow into productive members of society. The question is, how can you promote both without seeming like the parent that forces your children to memorize the dictionary? In this episode, Dr. Meg talks with Sarah MacKenzie, author of the book The Read Aloud Family. Sarah helps families all over the world make meaningful and lasting connections with their kids through books, and she talks with Dr. Meg about the benefits of reading with your kids of all ages. Also in this episode, Dr...
2018-06-0556 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #100: Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks, and over 4 Million Downloads🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Can you believe it? It’s Episode 100! And amazingly, we just crossed over a pretty huge milestone here at The Read-Aloud Revival: over 4 million downloads of the podcast.You know, I couldn’t have picked a better guest for this week’s 100th episode celebration. In today’s episode, I’m chatting with Jeanne Birdsall, author of the Penderwicks series.The final book in the series, The Penderwicks at Last is available today, so your Penderwicks fans are going to want to get their hands on that right away.
2018-05-1552 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #99: Meet Lola Dutch (she is just too much!)🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Lola Dutch is a little bit … much. And yet, she’s also like so many of us. I think you’re just going to love her! Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by Lola Dutch creators Kenneth and Sarah Jane Wright.In this episode, you’ll hear:How Lola came to beWhy so many of us seem to identify with herWhat this book means for instilling creative courage in our kidsFind the rest of the show notes at https://readaloudrevival.com/99/.
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2018-04-3042 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #98: Introducing Kids to Foreign Language through Reading Aloud🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Many of us want to help our children learn a second language, but where do we start? And what if we only speak one language ourselves?Anne Guarnera of Language Learning at Home is joining us today to walk us through it. Although it isn’t her first language, she speaks Spanish in her home and encourages families to learn new languages together.In this episode, you’ll hear:How to get started learning a new languageHow learning a second language helps us with our native languageH...
2018-04-2443 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #97: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud with Teens🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Last week we talked about reading aloud to kids who can read on their own, but today we’re taking that a step further and talking about reading aloud with teens. You know the most important thing about reading aloud with teens, right? Surprise! It’s not their literary value or whether your teen knows how to analyze a story. It’s better than that.(Much better).Reading with teens can be pure magic. It’s such a simple way to slow down and enjoy one a...
2018-04-1726 min
CiRCE Institute Podcast NetworkFORMA: Sarah Mackenzie on her new book, curating children's books, and moreWelcome to FORMA, a podcast featuring conversations with authors, teachers, creators, and community leaders who are carefully contemplating the nature and practice of classical education. In this episode Sarah Mackenzie, host of the Read Aloud Revival podcast, joins David to discuss her new book, The Read Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, which is due out on March 27th. Topics of conversation include the challenges of curating books for her audience, teaching discernment, whether she would write a children's book herself, and much more. This episode is brought to y...
2018-03-1354 min
FormaSarah Mackenzie on her new book, choosing books for kids, and much moreWelcome to FORMA, a podcast featuring conversations with authors, teachers, creators, and community leaders who are carefully contemplating the nature and practice of classical education. In this episode Sarah Mackenzie, host of the Read Aloud Revival podcast, joins David to discuss her new book, The Read Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, which is due out on March 27th. Topics of conversation include the challenges of curating books for her audience, teaching discernment, whether she would write a children's book herself, and much more. This episode is brought to y...
2018-03-1354 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #88: Don’t Miss This Book: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Today I’m sharing one of the best books I read last year. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street is uniquely wonderful– a refreshing and upbeat middle grade novel featuring a loud and lively big family (5 kids and their parents), a curmudegonly landlord, a talented bunny, and enough witty dialogue to keep you warm for the rest of winter.This is now my go-to recommendation for families who love The Penderwicks, All-of-a-Kind Family, The Saturdays or The Moffats.The author’s dog is named Ginger Pye. So we knew she wa...
2018-02-1242 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #87: Books to Celebrate Your Adopted Child, Brooke Cooney🎄 Join us for Christmas School →In today’s episode of the podcast, we’re sharing books about adoption.Some are picture books, some are YA– and we’ve got a little something for everyone in between. These are books that will help your family celebrate the adopted children in your life.Brooke Cooney has made it her mission to share books about orphaned children, fostering and adoption.In this episode, you’ll hear:about books for families who are waiting to bring their child homebooks that help adopted kids to...
2018-02-0641 min
The Biz Mavens Podcast002: How to Leverage Online Courses to Build a Thriving Membership Site, with Sarah MackenzieWhat started out as a hobby for today’s guest, Sarah Mackenzie, has exploded into a podcast with over 1 million downloads that reaches tens of thousands of listeners each month. But Sarah’s favorite? The membership site where she brings the very best authors, events, and online courses to her audience…and makes a healthy income for her family. This ride has taken Sarah from burned-out blogger to Smart CEO.
In this episode, listen for…
Sarah’s nail-biting journey of “niching down” — including the entire website she gave away in the process.
The critical move from having a blogge...
2018-01-2439 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #81: Eavesdropping on the Soul, a conversation with Katherine Paterson🎄 Join us for Christmas School →I think it’s fair to say this is my favorite episode of the podcast we’ve ever done. You probably know Katherine Paterson as the author of books like Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved and the Great Gilly Hopkins, but if you’re not familiar with her essays about writing for children, you’re about to have your socks knocked off.The way Ms. Paterson thinks about reading and writing books for kids blows me away. I’m in awe.In this episo...
2017-11-2139 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #79: Qualities of Great Books for Kids, with Sarita Holzmann of Sonlight Curriculum🎄 Join us for Christmas School →What should we look for when we’re choosing books for our children?It’s as easy at 7 points, as you’ll hear in this episode with Sarita Holzmann of Sonlight Curriculum.Sarita is a veteran homeschool mom and book lover.In this episode, you’ll hear:how her son went from struggling reader to Valedictorianall about her 7-point all-star test for booksbook recommendations that your kids will love and remember long after they leave homeFind the rest of the show notes at https://readaloudrevi...
2017-11-0733 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #71: The Research and Inspiration Behind Fascinating Historical Fiction, Caroline Starr Rose🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Caroline Starr Rose is back, and she’s joining me today to talk about her historical fiction, plus she’s sharing inspiration for young authors and tips for introducing novels in verse to our kids.In this episode, you’ll hear:the picture book she wrote about the wetlands after Hurricane Katrinawhat research looks like for a historical fiction author4 novels in verse to share with younger childrenthe book Sarah read-aloud… to herself!Kids will be so inspired to hear about Caroline’s research and writing process...
2017-09-1139 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #69: Helen Oxenbury, Behind the Scenes with an Award-Winning Illustrator🎄 Join us for Christmas School →This is one of the most delightful conversations we’ve ever had on the Read-Aloud Revival podcast!I’m talking today with Helen Oxenbury, author and illustrator, about creating picture books – from where she gets her ideas, to the supplies she uses to draw animals (and the cutest darn babies around) and more.In this episode, you’ll hear:which books Helen read to her own 3 childrenwhat it’s been like working with her husband, author and illustrator John Burningham (the creator of the Mr. Gumpy s...
2017-08-2838 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #64: Helping Resistant Readers Fall in Love with Books, Laura Martin🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Before Laura Martin ever authored her amazing Edge of Extinction series, she was a middle school language arts teacher. And her specialty was helping kids resistant to reading fall in love with books.In this episode, you’ll hear:some of her favorite tips to get your kids not just reading more, but really loving booksideas for organizing books by genre and helping your children create a “someday list.”and why kids who want to be writers should be listening to more books than they’re reading...
2017-05-0749 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #62: Inspiring a Love of Nature Through Books, Greta Eskridge🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Take a peek at Greta Eskridge’s Instagram account, and you might just see her shin-deep in a tide pool with her kids, or hanging out on top of a mountain.It’s clear that Greta adores nature. But as a child, believe it or not, Greta didn’t spend a lot of time in nature. What did she do? She read about it.Now as a mama of four, Greta shares those same books with her children.In this episode, you’ll hear...
2017-04-1052 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #60: Your Job is to Plant the Seed, a conversation with Sally Lloyd Jones🎄 Join us for Christmas School →So many of us know Sally Lloyd Jones best as the author of the beloved Jesus Storybook Bible.Now you’re going to just love hearing her insightful thoughts about sharing stories with our kids.This is a sweet, but powerful episode that might catch you off guard- Sally is such a joy to listen to, and her words pack a big punch.In this episode, you’ll hear:reaching our children through storieshow she found the bravery to write a children’s bibleand...
2017-03-1238 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #59: Books to Make the Whole Family Howl, Maryrose Wood🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Awoooooooo! Get ready for some pure delight in this episode of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast. We’re joined by the wonderful and witty author of the spunky and endearing Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series.In this episode, you’ll hear:where the idea of a governess caring for children raised by wolves came from (it turns out it’s a bit of Jane Eyre and a dash of The Jungle Book!)how she plots her mysterious storylinesand Maryrose even reads (and howls) a bit!This episode is not to b...
2017-02-2754 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR Bonus Episode: Melissa Sweet on the One and Only E.B. White🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Although Melissa Sweet didn’t grow up a reader, she has always had a love and passion for creating, which shows in the beautiful drawings, paintings and collages she has used to illustrate numerous picture books.She also an accomplished author, and her most recent book is about the one and only E.B. White- the ma who wrote Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan.Melissa joins us today to talk about:bringing E.B. White to life through her picture book biog...
2016-10-1144 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #52: Bonding Through Books, Tricia Goyer🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Tricia Goyer is the well-known author of more than 50 encouraging books for women, moms and teens. She’s also a homeschooling mama of 10, and 7 of her children came to her family through adoption.In this episode, you’ll hear: how reading aloud helped her to bond with her adoptive childrenhow although she grew up in a non-reading family, reading and writing has become a huge part of her family’s culturethe books that made her both a reader and a really prolific writerFind the rest of the show note...
2016-10-0344 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #51: The Golden Age of Children’s Books🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Reading aloud is a treat, and Carole Joy Seid wants us to remember that every time we pick up a book to share with our kids.In this episode, she is joining us again to talk about the Golden Age of Children’s Literature. Some of these books may be new to you, and some you may have heard of before, but wondered if they would stand the test of time and still make great read-alouds. (Hint: They do!)You’re going to want to listen ca...
2016-09-2055 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #49: Why We Should All Be Reading Aloud to Children🎄 Join us for Christmas School →When I first saw Rebecca Bellingham’s TedX talk, Why We Should All Be Reading Aloud to Children, I was so moved that I watched it twice in a row. Then I shot a note off to the Read-Aloud Revival podcast manager: “can we get her on the podcast?”And we did. :) You’re in for a treat in this first episode of season 9!In this episode, you’ll hear:the theater of reading aloudhaving difficult discussions around booksRebecca’s tips for sharing enthusiasm for books with our kidsF...
2016-08-2245 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #42: Inspiring Parents in Children’s Literature: A Conversation with Greta Eskridge🎄 Join us for Christmas School →What inspires you to be a better parent? When Greta Eskridge wants inspiration in her mothering, she doesn’t usually turn to parenting manuals. She turns to her favorite children’s book classics, instead.In this episode of the Read-Aloud Revival, Greta describes how reading books like The Yearling, Little Women, Caddie Woodlawn, and even Danny, Champion of the World have shaped and formed her into the mother she is today, and how they inspire her to be a better mother tomorrow.In this episode, you’ll hear:ab...
2016-03-0851 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #39: Reading to Kids with Special Needs, Cheryl Swope🎄 Join us for Christmas School →What’s a parent of a special needs child to do about reading aloud? How do you choose books to read with a child who is developing at a different rate than his or her peers?Cheryl Swope, author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child and mama to special needs twins, gives us the lowdown in this episode of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast.In this episode, you’ll hear: about the benefit of reading aloud with kids with special needschoosing booksCheryl’s advice for parents...
2016-01-2646 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #36: Christmas and Advent Read-Alouds with Elizabeth Foss🎄 Join us for Christmas School →It’s the hap-happiest read-aloud time of the year! I don’t know anyone who lives this out better than my good friend, Elizabeth Foss, so I invited her onto the show to chat up Christmas and Advent read-alouds.We’re so excited about this episode of the podcast, we’re publishing a whole week early.In this episode; you’ll hear:find the best Christmas and Advent bookscelebrate the season without getting overwhelmedand enjoy December with your family!Find the rest of the show notes at https...
2015-12-0159 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #31: Reading Aloud for History, Rea Berg🎄 Join us for Christmas School →This may be one of the most delightful conversations we’ve had yet on the Read-Aloud Revival. If you haven’t met Rea Berg yet… you’re going to love me for introducing you to her. :) And if you know who she is, you don’t need me to blab on here -you just want to cut right to the interview!In this episode, you’ll hear: reading aloud for historynurturing the soul of your childand how books have changed Rea’s life (and how they very well may change the world...
2015-09-2958 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #30: Reading Aloud with Boys, Cindy RollinsBoys. Here at the Read-Aloud Revival, we get asked about the nitty gritty of reading with boys more than anything else. And who better to answer those questions than a mother of eight boys?She also happens to be one of my very favorite people, so this episode is a goodie.In this episode, you’ll hear:
why you should read first thing in the morning
what advice she would give her younger self
how to make reading aloud a habit
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2015-09-1540 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #15: Poetry Read-Alouds for Parents Who Are Intimidated by Poetry🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Caroline Starr Rose has written entire books in verse. Now don’t be intimidated. Her book, May B, has been described as part Hatchet, part Little House on the Prairie, and part Out of the Dust.In this episode, you’ll hear: her books, of course!how to get started with poetry even if it’s as intimidating to you as it is to meher booklist (a-mazing!) I can’t believe how many of Caroline’s favorite books I hadn’t heard of beforeFind the rest of the show n...
2014-11-1750 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #14: For Parents Who Don’t Like Reading Aloud🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Do you enjoy reading aloud? I know a whole lot of people who don’t. But just because you don’t enjoy reading aloud doesn’t mean you can’t build your family culture around books.Today on the Read-Aloud Revival podcast, I chat with Marie Ripple about how audio books can make a huge difference in your family’s habit of shared reading.This episode isn’t just for those who don’t enjoy reading aloud, though -- it’s for anyone curious about how to use audio books to...
2014-11-0331 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #12: The Reading Promise🎄 Join us for Christmas School →Alice Ozma is the author of The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared. If you read nothing else this year, read this book. I mean it.I swallowed it and immediately knew I had to have Alice on the show. The book is moving, funny, heart-wrenching, and is a big huge kick in the pants. There is no way you can finish it without being completely motivated to read read read to your kids.In this episode, you’ll hear: the power of reading...
2014-09-2945 minRead-Aloud Revival ®RAR #11: Using the Library Without Losing Your Mind, Jamie Martin🎄 Join us for Christmas School →What keeps you from making the best use of your local library? For me, it’s the likelihood of losing my sanity. :)On this episode of the Read-Aloud Revival, Jamie Martin- editor of Simple Homeschool and blogger at Steady Mom– shares a perspective that we can use the library in any way that fits our family right now, in the season we’re in.In this episode, you’ll hear: some strategies she’s used for using the library without getting overwhelmedhow she’s formed a relationship betwe...
2014-09-1349 min