Little, Aloud with Love

Research has shown that being read to makes us healthier and happier, it enriches our hearts and minds. This title gathers together favourite poems and prose as well as some surprises.
An anthology of prose and poetry selected for reading a little, aloud, to someone you love.     'Will it come like a change in the weather?      Will its greeting be courteous or rough?      Will it alter my life altogether?      O tell me the truth about love.'     --W.H. Auden     Many of the most popular, best known works in the English language celebrate love in all its forms; that heady first flush, the agony of heartbreak, that joyful reunion... And what better to way to share these beautiful pieces than to read them aloud, to someone you love? Research has proven that being read aloud to stimulates thought and memory and encourages the sharing of feelings and ideas.     Put together by The Reader Organisation, the UK's leading charity for literacy and health, this anthology gathers much-loved paired pieces of poems and prose. Read 'Our places by the fire place' to a parent, 'My love is come to me' to a partner, 'Most near, most dear' to a child, or even 'A need to reach out sometimes' to a friend. Discover Haruki Murakami's quirky take on love at first sight, and, alongside it, enjoy afresh the immortal wisdom of Walt Whitman. The publisher is donating all royalties from this book to The Reader Organisation, the leading UK agency for reading and health.