Quotes on Reading For Kids

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.

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.

When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

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 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.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

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

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

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 reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

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.