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Read-Aloud Revival ®

RAR #204: How Do You Organize Books in Your Home Library?

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Books, Homeschool, How To, Read-aloud, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Reading, Education, Parenting

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Wondering how to organize ALL those books you have a home? Look no further - today, we're chatting home library organization.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.8

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

0:12.6

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

0:23.7

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

0:28.7

I'm answering one of your questions. Hi Sarah. My name is Hannah. We have loved the advice of how to

0:35.6

get littles to jump for certain books. So we do have book baskets and we'll sometimes put books

0:43.5

standing on end with our cover out on different tables or dressers for kids to reach for.

0:48.6

Our oldest son is starting to go more into the chapter book realm and enjoys sitting for

0:54.7

longer periods of time and being read too. And so with that, it has made me think about, you know,

1:01.2

what book I can encourage him to reach for next. But sometimes when mom says, this is a good book,

1:08.2

there's a little bit of resistance that comes with that. And so I have been thinking about just how

1:13.2

to organize books within the home as a whole. We have several bookcases in different rooms

1:21.2

because we don't really have one room that would fit all of our bookcases. But with that,

1:27.1

how do you go about organizing the books in your home? Are there certain bookcases that are for

1:33.8

certain ages? Or do you put a little bit for each age on all the different bookcases? Are there

1:42.0

certain shelves that are one genre? Or do you have a certain bookcase that's just for school and

1:48.5

the pleasure books are different? Or do you kind of co-mingle those together? Maybe I don't know,

1:53.6

do you even like color coat? I, yourselves, I'm not really sure. I just, I'm curious about the

2:00.8

ideology behind how to organize books throughout the home rather than just in a child space because

2:08.3

it is something that I want our family to share together. It's important to both my husband and I

2:14.5

and I think how that's organized is important. But I also don't want our home to become a formal

2:20.8

library because that seems very rigid and takes away from some of the informal pickup and be cozy

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