Monthly Update
Recent Family Read Alouds {Summer 2024, Age 11&9}
I never regret the time spent reading books with my kids, but finding the windows of time for longer books feels challenging with a toddler in the mix. We have relied heavily on audiobooks in this season. I have dreams…
Recent Family Read Alouds (Spring 2024, age 11 & 9)
Our family read alouds this quarter had some winners! My 9yo went so far as to predict that one of the novels will be in the top of our end-of-year rankings! (The first book summary below!) This post contains affiliate…
Recent Family Read Alouds (Winter 2024, age 11 & 9)
What a disappointing list this is. We have gotten out of our routine of reading together, partly due to having a toddler who really dislikes my attention being on a book and not HER, and partly because the older boys…
Recent Family Read Alouds {Fall 2023}
I find the fall to be the toughest time for family read alouds. It’s a busy season. The books we squeezed in were great, and I’m glad we managed to complete them! What we read: This post contains affiliate links.…
Family Read Alouds {Spring 2023, Age 8 & 10}
As our read alouds get longer, these lists get shorter! And although it's been increasingly challenging to find time to sit down and read together with my kids amongst busy schedules and a busy toddler, we have plodded along and…
Family Read Alouds {Winter 2023, Age 8 & 10}
We’re in a season where family read aloud times feel hard-fought for; between a baby-turned-toddler and increased academic reading for older kids, the leisurely pleasure reading hours have grown shorter. Interestingly as well, the kids have taken to asking for…
Family Read Alouds {Fall 2022, 2nd & 4th grade}
There’s a distinctive middle ages theme to our book list this time around, with a sprinkling of Christmas stories, too. Novels provide such a rich way of delving farther into our history topics, so we enjoyed the books below to…
- Age 5-8, Age 8-12, Age early elementary, Audiobooks, Chapter Books, Monthly Update, Our Literate Life
Family Read Alouds {2021 Summer/Fall}
Finally sharing what we’ve been reading lately… and not so lately as the time as flown by! These read alouds carried us through the second half of 2021. This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon associate, I earn a…
- Age 5-8, Age 8-12, Age early elementary, Audiobooks, Chapter Books, Monthly Update, Our Literate Life
Family Read Alouds {Spring 2021}
Several classics and a few lesser known books, this Spring was an interesting mix of books enjoyed in an interesting mix of locations– from the couch to the patio, to the first road trips of the season! Here’s what we’ve…
Family Read Alouds {Age 6 and 8, Winter 2021}
These long, dreary, wet, cold days have been GREAT for read aloud time! We’ve enjoyed every one of these books so much! A mix of older and new, these characters and adventures have a special place in our hearts now!…
Family Read Alouds {Sept-Dec 2020}
This season of reading saw us revisiting some old favorites and meeting some new classics as well. In particular, the My Side of the Mountain series captured my boys’ hearts and led to a deep dive into the world of…
- Age 3-5, Age 5-8, Age 8-12, Age early elementary, Audiobooks, Chapter Books, Monthly Update, Our Literate Life
Family Read Alouds {Jan-April 2020, Age 5 and 7}
We’ve been slowly meandering through books as a family. Each of these hold special memories now- of life both pre and during quarantine. I now fondly remember listening to audiobooks in the car while running around town and back and…
Our Family Read Alouds
It’s been a wonderful year of reading for our family! We’ve made so many new friends and have collected “memories” of all the places we’ve traveled! (Extra helpful to our travel “budget!”) My younger Bookworm started the year as a…
- Age 3-5, Age 5-8, Age 8-12, Age early elementary, Audiobooks, Chapter Books, Family Read Alouds, Monthly Update
Monthly Book Log {October-December 2019}
Our book log for the last 3 months looks anemic compared to all of the reading that I’ve felt that we’ve done with my (newly) 5yo and 6yo. The boys have spent much of their reading time with nonfiction books…
- Age 3-5, Age 5-8, Age early elementary, Audiobooks, Chapter Books, Monthly Update, Our Literate Life
Monthly Book Log {July-September 2019, Age 4 & 6}
Another season of reading in the books! I have such treasured memories from this summer of reading these novels and listening to the audiobooks on our various roadtrips and adventures in our trusty minivan (and as it happened, also in…
