Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Judy Freeman’s BER Seminar on the best books for K-6.  Over lunch, Judy caught me up on two of her projects:- NPR! She was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition (today!) about great holiday reads!  Listen here.  Here is an excerpt:

 But some parents feel self-conscious when they read aloud, says Judy Freeman, the author of a guide to read-aloud books called Books Kids Will Sit Still For. Freeman says they should get over their inhibitions.

 

“Your kids don’t know the difference. They just want to be warm, and they want to hear your voice, and they associate the words with you,” she says. “It turns them into readers. If you want your kids to read, you have to read to them.”

 

Reading aloud to kids is a good idea no matter what time of year, says Freeman, but the holidays can be an incentive to get started.

 

“When you start a family tradition by reading the same books every year … it’s just fun. It’s warm. It makes you say, ‘Oh it’s that time of year again, let’s do this,’ ” Freeman says.

- Reviews for Read Kiddo Read, a James Patterson Web-based project and online community to promote reading in reluctant readers.   Patterson will be a keynote at the 2009 AASL Conference.Â

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