The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write..

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage..

Books don't harm kids; they arm them..

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous..

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of….

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate..

If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books li….

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be fo….

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the w….

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, the….

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes..

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text..

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve prob….

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young peo….

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku..

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading..

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent-….

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa..

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work..

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by ….

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point..