| Heya <<First Name>>,
One of the coolest acts of parenting I’ve ever seen was from this dad I’d watch every morning on my old Seattle bus commute.
He’d nestle into a seat near the front with his daughter and read to her for the 15 minutes it took to go from the Roosevelt neighborhood to her preschool in Wallingford.
 I dig that memory because it reminds me that reading aloud doesn’t have to look like anything specific. As Meghan Cox Gurdon writes in her book “The Enchanted Hour”:
Start small. Start where you are. Start today! There is no need to be heroic and commit to an endless future of reading aloud, or to a three-month trial period … Just begin. Pick up a book, or a magazine, or a cereal box and try reading it out loud to someone you love.
Speaking of “The Enchanted Hour,” I can’t recommend it enough.
In fact, I was so excited about it that I wrote to Meghan and asked if I could share some of her book recommendations.
She said “Sure,” so I’ll be posting some of them on our Read-Aloud Rec Room Facebook group.
Please join if you haven’t yet, and share your own faves.
Quentin, our quokka mascot, takes a trip
Last week, we headed out of Seattle and drove over the mountains …
… through Oregon and Idaho …
… and into Utah.
We are having lots of adventures …
And spreading the word.
Happy reading,
Jeff, Bob, and Zoe …
… who believe that reading with kids can change the world for the better
PS. The graffiti was already there. 🙂 |
