A large portion of our school day is spent reading aloud or reading alone.
Good readers become good thinkers and good thinkers become good writers.
For short and long trips in the car, we play audio books on tape. We find most of those in the talking books section of the library. We bring laundry basket for hauling. It is perched in the front seat of our double stroller and greatly eases our entry and exit maneuvers on the library grounds. Many libraries have on-line searching and reserves where you can request the books for you to pick up at the front desk.