A Little, Aloud: An anthology of prose and poetry for reading aloud to someone you care for

Editorial Reviews

"I've always known that reading aloud was one of the paths to greater happiness in life. It's rather pleasing to hear of research backing this up convincingly. But reading aloud isn't medicine to be swallowed to make one feel better. It's pleasure. Pure pleasure." - Stephen Fry

"Reading aloud is an activity that everyone can take part in. It sharpens the intellect, invigorates the imagination and enlarges the scope of human sympathy. If we all read aloud every day, the world would be a better place." - Philip Pullman

"Reading aloud brings health and happiness: guaranteed! I urge you to buy this book, read the wonderful (and funny, surprising, thought-provoking) pieces collected here to someone you care for and see the results for yourself." - Fiona Phillips

"Being read to is the beguiling beginning of learning to love reading - it opens the door to absolutely everything and anything we might want to do in life." - Joanna Trollope

"I read to stroke victims so know first-hand the power of good that reading aloud can do. This first-rate collection is a real treasure trove and I can't recommend it highly enough." - Richard Briers

"This book is an incredible invention, and like all great inventions, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it." - Maureen Lipman

"A Little, Aloud is wonderful -- a luscious, challenging enticement to read and hear and share the love of doing both. We don't read with the eye only. Until we hear literature we don't possess it. This anthology is more than a collection of good writing, it wakens the ear to what good writing is." - Howard Jacobson

"There's no doubt that reading aloud together about other's lives makes it possible to think and talk about our own in new ways ... All the better if what is read is gracefully and perceptively written ... To bring together, as this anthology does, pieces that lend themselves to reading aloud, the editors have made a most generous and welcome contribution." - Tim Parks

"The Reader Organisation is doing something no one else is doing on a such a scale and in such an inventive and thoughtful way: bringing books to people and people to books in a way that will change their lives for the better." - Raymond Tallis

"Once upon a time people always read aloud - even to themselves. But lately reading has been privatised. This lovely book is an antidote to that trend and will give much pleasure to readers and hearers alike." - Rt. Revd. Dr. John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln