Jim Trelease - The Read-Aloud Handbook

Cyndi reading aloud to second graders during Read Across America Day on March 2 (Dr. Seusss birthday)

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The Read-Aloud Handbook first published in Penguin Books 1982

First revised edition published 1985

Second revised edition (with the title The New Read-Aloud Handbook) published 1989

Third revised edition published 1995

Fourth revised edition published 2001

Fifth revised edition published 2006

Sixth revised edition published 2013

This seventh revised edition published 2019

Copyright 1979, 1982, 1985, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2013 by Jim Trelease

Copyright 2019 by The James J. Trelease Read-Aloud Royalties Revocable Trust

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Newbery Medal acceptance speech copyright 2017 by Matt de la Pea. Reprinted by permission of Writers House LLC acting as agent for the author.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN- PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Trelease, Jim author. | Giorgis, Cyndi, revisor, editor. | Trelease, Jim. The read-aloud handbook.

Title: Jim Treleases read-aloud handbook / [Jim Trelease] ; edited and revised by Cyndi Giorgis.

Other titles: Read-aloud handbook

Description: Eighth Edition, Seventh Revised Edition. | New York : PENGUIN BOOKS, 2019. | Portions of this book were originally published in pamphlet form--T.p. verso. | The Read-Aloud Handbook first published in Penguin Books 1982. First revised edition published 1985. Second revised edition (with the title The New Read-Aloud Handbook) published 1989--T.p. verso. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019014911 (print) | LCCN 2019020114 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525505624 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143133797 | ISBN 9780143133797 (trade paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Oral reading.

Classification: LCC LB1573.5 (ebook) | LCC LB1573.5 .T68 2019 (print) | DDC 372.45/2--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014911

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Cover design and illustration by Monika Forsberg

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This eighth edition of Jim Treleases Read-Aloud Handbook is dedicated to the two Jims:

Jim Trelease for his passion and advocacy for reading aloud to children. I am forever indebted to you for allowing me to be a part of this incredible legacy.

Jim Kruger for your love and never-ending support over the years. You have been the best research assistant ever. I appreciate you reading, rereading, and offering your suggestions and edits for this new edition. We are a good team!

We must ensure that childrens early encounters with reading are pleasurable so they will cheerfully return to the experience, now and forever. Our ultimate goal is to create lifetime readers.

Acknowledgments

WHEN you are presented with an opportunity to update one of the most well-known and respected books about reading aloud, having support and cooperation from family, friends, colleagues, children, teachers, librarians, and editors is essential. I would like to extend my deepest appreciation to:

My parents, Donna Zanetti and Glenn Martens. How I wish they were still living to be part of this incredible next step in my professional journey. While neither had formal education beyond high school, they both instilled in me and my sister, Glenda, a love of reading. My mother read aloud to us when we were children, and my father always read magazines and the daily newspaper, engaging us in discussion about a variety of topics. They modeled what is advocated in this book.

Students, past and present, who reaffirm with each read-aloud that experiencing a book together creates a bond that connects us. Its awesome when six-year-olds, nineteen-year-olds, and forty-somethings break into applause after you read aloud a picture book to them.

The many current and new friends who offered their stories to me. For this edition, I am especially grateful to Melissa Olans Antinoff, Kathleen Armstrong, Jim Bailey, Diane Crawford, Matt de la Pea, Charity Delach, Peter Delach, Christine Draper, Sean Dudley, Alma S. Baca Hernandez, Clara Lackey; Mark Lackey, Erika and Richard McCallum, Tiffany Nay, Elysha OBrien, Jasmine E. Rich-Arnold, Scott Riley, Maria Rue, Jessica Saad, Francisco Snchez, Megan Sloan, and Jimma Tadelech.

My amazing friends and colleagues, Nancy Johnson and Marie LeJeune, not only for your anecdotes, but also for recognizing that the opportunity to revise this book is a big deal. I cannot express to you how much I treasure our friendship.

Those in childrens book publishing and marketing: Lori Benton, Terry Borzumato-Greenberg, Lucy Del Priore, Lisa DiSarro, Katie Halata, Emily Heddleson, Angus Killick, Neal Porter, Lizette Serrano, Dina Sherman, Victoria Stapleton, and Jaime Wong. You are always ready with a book and a hug.