Remote Read Aloud Program
In 2020, Read to a Child adapted its successful in-person Celebrity Reading Program and re-launched it as the Remote Read Aloud Program to provide supplemental read aloud content to students learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and to inspire students and their families to establish daily read aloud practices at home.
In the Remote Read Aloud Program, notable authors, celebrities, athletes and other guest readers read aloud to groups of children online via Zoom. These sessions are recorded and produced, resulting in visually interactive and educational videos that center on important themes of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The Remote Read Aloud Program videos also include personal information from each author as well as lively Q&A sessions with the students on the call.
Thanks to our sponsors Winston & Strawn and The Guru Krupa Foundation for supporting Read to a Child’s vision with the Remote Read Aloud Program and making this entire library of read aloud videos accessible to our community.
Check out our latest Remote Read Aloud video
New! Click here to watch children's book author, Brynne Barnes, read aloud her debut picture book, Colors of Me
Remote Read Aloud Program Library
See children's book author, F. Anthony Falcon, reading from his debut picture book Be Brave, Be Brave, Be Brave.
Children's book author, Vita Murrow, reading from her two books of re-imagined fairly tales, Power to the Princess: 15 Favorite Fairytales Retold with Girl Power and High-Five to the Hero: 15 Favorite Fairytales Retold with Boy Power.
Super Bowl champion and children’s book author, Malcolm Mitchell, reading his children’s book My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World.
Author and activist, Jamia Wilson, reading her children's book Young, Gifted and Black.
'First Lady of Motown' and original member of The Miracles, Claudette Robinson, reads her children's book Claudette's Miraculous Motown Adventure.
Author of award-winning children's book series, Mary Pope Osborne, readis her newest Magic Tree House book Late Lunch with Llamas.
#1 New York Times bestselling author, R.J. Palacio reads her Book Wonder.
Tracy Drain, NASA Engineer, reads Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly reading to a Zoom classroom of fourth graders at LA's Esperanza Elementary.
Jordan Gershowitz, Head Writer at Nickelodeon, reads his book Ignore the Trolls.