RAR #69: Helen Oxenbury, Behind the Scenes with an Award-Winning Illustrator

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

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

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Helen Oxenbury stopped by the Read-Aloud Revival podcast to give us a peek into her process of creating classic children's books. She is a delight!

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0:00.0	A quick invitation here at the top of the episode because I don't want you to miss a brand
0:05.4	new free book list I have for you.
0:08.0	This one is a collection of favorites for Mama.
0:11.4	So if you're feeling like you want and need to fall back in love with your own reading
0:15.9	life and to do it with a book that I'll suck you right in, then this is the book list
0:20.4	for you.
0:21.4	Text the word retreat, R-E-T-R-E-A-T to the number 33777 and I'll send you that free
0:29.6	book list as soon as it's ready.
0:31.9	I'm putting the final touches on it now.
0:34.5	Happy reading.
0:35.5	So the rest of that story is that I brought the book home from the supermarket.
0:38.8	I kind of forgot about it.
0:39.8	It was dinner time.
0:40.8	We have six kids.
0:41.8	It was dinner time.
0:42.8	It was kind of crazy and we got everybody to bed and I went to go upstairs to bed and thought,
0:45.8	oh, I forgot to look at that book.
0:47.2	So I went back downstairs in the dark at a house, clicked on the kitchen light and opened
0:51.6	it up and read it to myself and started cracking up laughing.
0:54.9	And my husband is like, you're reading a picture book to yourself and laughing out loud.
0:59.3	I'm like, look at this book.
1:00.3	This is so...
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