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Sarah Mackenzie

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https://readaloudrevival.com

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Nonfiction, Children's, Fiction

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November 2013

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Sarah Mackenzie started Read-Aloud Revival® to help parents make meaningful and lasting connections with their kids through books.

She’s a mother of six, the author of Teaching from Rest and The Read-Aloud Family, and host of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast, which has been downloaded over 16 million times in more than 160 countries.

Her award-winning publishing house, Waxwing Books, makes timeless stories families will love to read aloud.

Sarah makes her home in the Pacific Northwest.

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Best of RAR: Simple Habits for Nurturing Lifelong Readers

We all want our kids to be readers.

Not just kids who can read, but kids who actually do read. Who then grow up and keep choosing to read because they want to, not because they have to.

But there’s a curious thing that those of us who care deeply about raising lifelong readers tend to do, which is to treat our kids’ reading lives in exactly the opposite way that adult readers actually read.

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Sarah Mackenzie’s books

Average rating: 4.54 · 27,057 ratings · 3,660 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids 4.47 avg rating — 14,257 ratings — published 2018 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace by Sarah Mackenzie (Goodreads Author), Christopher Perrin (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.63 avg rating — 9,481 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace 2.0 Edition 4.70 avg rating — 2,366 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids by Mystie Winckler (Goodreads Author), Sarah Mackenzie (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.71 avg rating — 820 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little More Beautiful: The Story of a Garden by Sarah Mackenzie (Goodreads Author), Breezy Brookshire (Illustrator) 4.51 avg rating — 251 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World by Sarah Mackenzie (Goodreads Author), Eileen Ryan Ewen (Illustrator) 4.39 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Real Learning Revisited by Elizabeth Foss, Sarah Mackenzie (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.59 avg rating — 141 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	While Everyone Is Sleeping by Sarah Mackenzie (Goodreads Author), Gabrielle Grimard (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 125 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Duck, Please Come! by Sarah Mackenzie (Goodreads Author), Charles Santoso (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ave Prayer Book for Catholic Mothers by Heidi Hess Saxton (Editor), Emily Wilson Hussem (Foreword), Jenna Guizar (Contributor) 4.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you want a child to know the truth, tell him the truth. If you want a child to love the truth, tell him a story.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

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“It is so exhausting- sometimes even demoralizing- to realize that our work in raising up and teaching our children is never really done. But we must remember that we were never intended to finish it.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

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“It doesn't really matter if we have the most beautiful, carefully thought-out plan if there aren't enough hours in the day to get to it. Look, if God expected you to get 36 hours worth of work done in a day, he would have given you 36 hours to do it. If you have more to do than time to do it in, the simple fact is this: some of what you are doing isn't on His agenda for you.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

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