The first Wednesday in February is World Read Aloud Day. It
doesn’t always fall on February one, but it does this year. It’s a day
dedicated not only to reading, but to the art and practice of reading out loud
to an audience. Long before the invention of written language, stories were
passed orally from one family to the next, from one village to the next and
from one generation to the next. What books would you choose to observe Read
Aloud Day? If your audience is mostly young children, you might try Where the Wild
Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Matilda by Roald Dahl, The One and
Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, or Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White.
Slightly older audiences might enjoy The Chronicles of Narnia by C.
S. Lewis, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Adventures of
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, or The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams.
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