Hey, hey, heads up. We've got a brand new book coming from a waxing. While everyone is sleeping is a picture book for ages 2 to 102 written by me Sarah McKenzie and

Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard. Just before first morning light, Little Shrew is awakened by the moon. A

Mysterious fragrance leads her to a garden of moon flowers where mods flutter,

crickets hum and frogs and peepers keep the beat. Join Little Shrew's Mary Rump in the Moonlit Garden in this bedtime story for adventurous souls.

The book releases October 3rd and when you pre-order you'll get a bundle of Happy bonuses. See for yourself and pre-order your copy today at waxwingbooks.com.

You're listening to the Read-A-Loud Revival Podcast. This is the podcast that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books.

Hello, hello Sarah McKenzie here. You've got Episode 125 of the Read-A-Loud Revival Podcast. So glad to have you here with me. I've got something a little extra special for you today.

Initially, we were going to title this episode when your kids don't love reading and we were going to talk all about how to invite your children into a love of reading. How to turn your kids the ones who don't read for pleasure into kids who read of their own accord.

And as I was preparing the episode, I realized that the heart of it is really all about creating a book club culture.

That's something that we talk about all the time in Read-A-Loud Revival Premium. The importance and the how to of creating a book club culture. Usually when we have kids who don't love reading, it's because a love of stories and books have been schooled out of them.

I don't know too many three or four year olds who don't like to be told a bedtime story. But our older kids often start to dislike reading as soon as they associate reading with the kind of reading they do for school.

Whether they're homeschooled or they go to traditional school or any kind of hybrid school, a lot of times the way we engage our kids with reading around their education literally ruins reading for them.

The antidote I believe is to create a book club culture at home. So that's what are going to dive into in this episode and the next one.

Now this is actually a masterclass I taught inside Read-A-Loud Revival Premium, a class called Creating a Book Club Culture at Home.

And so our masterclasses are just for our premium members. But I really thought the content of this one might be especially helpful to anyone who either has kids who don't love reading and wants to help them fall in love with books.

Or to those who have kids who do love reading and you want to nurture and protect that love, which is I think perhaps our most important job as educators preserving a love of reading is so crucial to launching our kids into their futures.

Think of it this way. If you want your child to be a lifelong learner, if you want them to love learning so much that they'll keep doing it even after their 18. And we do because honestly we have a lot more life to live after 18.

Then before it, right? Then our kids need to love reading because that's how we continue learning. And if our kids can read, but don't read, then that changes everything.

We have to start fretting about making sure they've learned all the most important things before they're 18 and that they've read the most important books.

If we can launch our kids into adulthood, loving reading, then they have an entire lifetime of learning ahead of them.

So I've split this master class, which was recorded live with our Readlaught Revival Premium members, like we do all of our master classes. We recorded it and I've split it up into two episodes today.

We'll get the first bit of class. And in the next episode, episode 126, which will release two weeks after this one, you'll get the rest of the class.

...