Hi Sarah. Hi Sarah. My name is Holly. Hi Sarah. My name is April. I'm in Melbourne, Australia.

I have a question about my name is Julie Ann and we live in India. I am wondering,

Hi Sarah. This is Crystal from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Can you give me a suggestion for an especially fabulous book?

Hey there. I'm Sarah McKenzie. This is the Read-A-Loud Revival. And in this short episode,

I'm answering one of your questions. Hi Sarah. My name is Lindsay. I'm curious about your opinion on

a bridged or adapted books. I know sometimes the richness of the language and vocabulary is lost,

but sometimes maybe for younger readers it's a good option. Is there ever a time that is good

for adapted books? I'd love to know your thoughts. Lindsay, this is such a good question and I think

it's especially relevant because a lot of us may come up against this more or be considering this

more a bridged and adapted versions as the school year approaches because for a lot of kids we're

reading classics for school and a bridged and adapted versions can be an easier way into a classic.

I really like a bridged and adapted versions and here is why. In my experience every time I have

shared an abridged or an adapted version of a classic with my kids it has helped them want to

read the full unabridged book. I know some of the people who say no abridging, no adaptations,

they need to get the original language and the original text just as the author put them down.

Their concern is that your child will read the abridged version and then will feel like let's say

they've read the abridged version of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and they will never actually

read the full version of Oliver Twist and the abridged version takes out all of that rich language

that is in the original Dickens. Very wordy language, am I dead? Because this is from a different time

and Charles Dickens was paid to be wordy. But here's the thing, in my personal experience that's

never been the case, it's always been the opposite. So if that's what we're worried about, I don't

think we need to worry about it. This happened with my now 17 year old daughter, Alison,

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