Reading For Kids Quotes

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

I don't want little kids reading my comics.

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.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

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

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

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.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

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

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

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.

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.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

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

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Love of books is the best of all.

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

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

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

Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part.  He said, “What happened then, daddy?”  I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out.  I'm too tired to read.  I'll read to you tomorrow.”  So, he had a need to want to learn how to read.  Don't teach children how to read.  Don't teach them mathematics.  Give them a reason to want it.  In school, they're working ass-backwards.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.