Quotes on Children Reading

Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

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.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

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.