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

- Jim Trelease

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…

- Jim Trelease

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…

- Jim Trelease

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.

- Jim Trelease

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…

- Jim Trelease

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…

- Jim Trelease

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

- Jim Trelease

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

- Jim Trelease

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.

- Jim Trelease