I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to share the joy of reading with children.
Malorie Blackman emphasizes the importance of fostering a love for reading and storytelling in children. She believes that by sharing her enthusiasm, she can inspire young minds to appreciate literature, which can have a lasting impact on their lives and development.
In practice
In a school assembly to encourage students to read more.
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.
History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at McDonald's.
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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