Welcome to the Read Aloud Revival Podcast. I'm your host, Audrey Mank.

Wait, wait, wait. I'm your host, Sarah McGandy. Welcome to the Read Alouda Revival

podcast, the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books.

And today on the show, my daughter, Audrey. How long have you been waiting to do that, Audrey?

All my life, I think. hilarious. We're going to be chatting about how books and stories inspire courage,

not just in your kids, but also in you. And do stick around until the end because we have a

brand new book list that you're not going to want to miss. Audrey, welcome back. Happy to be here. Let's jump right in. So you wrote a book.

You've written a few books, actually. But the one I want to ask you about today is the Reloud

family, making meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books.

And in, I believe, Chapter 3, you share the tale of George Washington and the Cherry Tree.

So could you just start us off by reading that?

Yes, absolutely.

So this is the Read Aloud family, making meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books. Chapter 3.

Drew was four when he first heard the story of George Washington and the cherry tree.

I hoisted him sweaty and smelling of earth and grass onto my lap one summer morning and read aloud the legend of when young George Washington

received a hatchet at only six years old.

The story goes that in his youthful foolishness, George used the hatchet on one of his father's

prized cherry trees. He immediately regretted his rash decision, knowing that a whipping

was likely coming his way as punishment for carelessly destroying

his father's property. When his father approached him about it, the boy drew himself up and

proclaimed with bold honesty, I cannot tell a lie, I did cut it with my hatchet. Surprisingly,

George did not get in trouble for his actions. In legendary wisdom,

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