The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five..

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it..

You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you coul….

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book..

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn..

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud..

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two wa….

Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get bett….

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the market….

If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous..

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child t….

Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that read….

Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and….

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that….

Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure i….

Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that d….

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories ….

Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkn….

We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults..

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic..

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily..