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Sarah Mackenzie

Goodreads Author

Website

https://readaloudrevival.com

Genre

Nonfiction, Children's, Fiction

Member Since

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: Why Read Aloud to Kids Who Can Read Themselves

Why do we read aloud to our kids? Especially those who can read to themselves?

This is a topic that comes up all the time at Read-Aloud Revival and it’s one I’m super passionate about. It’s foundational to what we do around here and I firmly believe it’s vital to our kids becoming lifelong readers.

In this episode, we’re talking about the impact reading aloud has on our children, regardless of

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Sarah Mackenzie’s books

Average rating: 4.54 · 25,556 ratings · 3,468 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids 4.47 avg rating — 13,521 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 — 9,290 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 — 1,896 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 — 710 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) 4.53 avg rating — 222 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) 4.40 avg rating — 187 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) 4.58 avg rating — 132 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) 4.25 avg rating — 110 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) 4.30 avg rating — 98 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) 4.70 avg rating — 20 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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