RAR #247: Why We Love Historical Fiction, Anna Rose Johnson
Read-Aloud Revival ®
Sarah Mackenzie
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We recently took a poll in RAR Premium about favorite reading genres, and it turns out that historical fiction isn’t just my favorite genre, but it’s the favorite of many of you as well.
Today, I’ve invited historical fiction lover and award-winning author Anna Rose Johnson to join me to discuss just what it is about historical fiction that draws us in.
We’re also chatting about the inspiration for her stories, her research process, and what her parents did to support her as a budding writer. In turn, she shares a ton of recommendations for her favorite historical fiction for young readers.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How historical fiction sweeps readers through a portal to another world
- How Anna Rose breaks down her research process into stages so it doesn’t get overwhelming
- How re-reading helped Anna Rose develop her ear and voice as a writer
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello hello. Welcome to the Read Aloud Revival Podcast, the show that helps families fall |
| 0:11.0 | in love with books and fall in love with homeschooling. I'm your host |
| 0:14.5 | Sarah Mackenzie. Today I want to talk about my own favorite reading genre. A lot of |
| 0:20.9 | your favorites too because we did a poll not too long ago at R.R. Premium to ask which |
| 0:27.2 | genre you most like to read for fun. And so many of you said my answer which is historical fiction. We all love some good |
| 0:36.0 | historical fiction so I knew just who to invite on the show to talk about historical |
| 0:40.5 | fiction. Anna Rose Johnson is here. She's not only a fellow lover of |
| 0:45.2 | reading historical fiction, but also she's a writer of historical fiction and |
| 0:49.9 | some excellent historical fiction at that. We're going to talk all about it. She's the |
| 0:54.5 | award-winning author of The Star That Always Stays, a middle grade historical fiction |
| 0:59.8 | novel that is on several of my book lists and the luminous life of Lucy Landry an utterly |
| 1:07.0 | fabulous title a completely charming story I like to describe it as a perfect read if you love Lucy Mon Montgomery set in the Michigan |
| 1:15.6 | Lighthouse. Honor Rose is here to chat with me all things historical fiction, writing it |
| 1:20.5 | reading it all the good stuff. |
| 1:26.8 | Anna Rose welcome to the read aloud revival so glad you're here. |
| 1:29.4 | Well, thank you so much for asking me. It's such a delight. |
| 1:31.1 | So historical fiction is my own favorite genre. I know I get a lot of great |
| 1:37.5 | recommendations from your website on. In fact, I believe you're the one who recommended or maybe you just |
| 1:44.9 | had it on your website Miss Bunkel's book by D.E. Stevenson and I was like I've |
| 1:50.2 | never heard of this before and then I went and got the audio book and just loved it so much. I |
| 1:54.8 | loved it so much we chose it as my mama book club pick for this next coming year. |
| 1:59.8 | That's great. It's such a fun book. Have you always loved historical fiction as a kid? |
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