Sure, I sell books and children's books online at aceswebworld.com, but I've given more books away than I'll ever sell. Simply put, I believe that kids should be encouraged to read. Regardless of what kind of environment children find themselves in, books can impact their lives positively. Whether books are read to instruct, to illustrate or simply to escape, the offshoot of an acquired love for reading is an improved ability to read and communicate with words, an ability that will serve children well througout their lives. Below, I've gathered quotes by people more well known than me on the subject of reading. Enjoy.
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." — Emilie Buchwald
"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read." — Marilyn Jager Adams
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." — Jacqueline Kennedy
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” - Victor Hugo
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet." — Lady Montagu, on raising her granddaughter, 1752
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." — Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” - Katherine Patterson
"You may have tangible wealth untold. / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be – / I had a mother who read to me." — Strickland Gillilan
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!" — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.” - Madonna (1991)
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." — Walt Disney
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." - B. F. Skinner
“The nonreading children are the greatest problem in American education.” — Glenn Doman, "How to Teach Your Baby to Read"
"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child." - May Ellen Chase
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” - Maya Angelou
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” - William James
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." ~ Anna Quindlen
"TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book." - Author Unknown
"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books... Children learn to read being in the presence of books." - Horace Mann
"Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different." — Steven Pinker
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