In Fact, Every Child Likes Reading and Being Read To

If you care about the benefits of "reading aloud" with your child or with the children around you, you really must find and read "The Read-Aloud Handbook" by Jim Trelease, a book that has been translated into Vietnamese under the title "Thực Ra, Mọi Đứa Trẻ Đều Thích Nghe Đọc Sách" (I have only read and known the English edition; I do not know this translation well, so you might want to look into it yourself).

"The Read-Aloud Handbook" is one of the 75 most important books in 75 years of Penguin’s publishing, and it has been written and updated all the way to an 8th edition. And it truly is a book that overwhelmed me, that first opened up, and then changed, how I see walking alongside children in READING. I came to know it years ago through a lovely page, Đủng Đỉnh Đọc — thank you so much to that page.

One of the lovely experiences I have had with this book: after I recommended it to a Korean student of mine, someone who is not really a book lover and who used to read with her children only "at no fixed hour", she made a new reading space in the evening for her three children. And the truth is, every child likes reading and being read to!