A truly great book should be read in youth, again
in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine
building should be seen by morning light, at noon
and by moonlight.
-Robertson
Davies
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"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
Emilie Buchwald |
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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.
~
Maya Angelou |
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So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set
away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on
the wall.
-Roald Dahl
(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) |
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There
are many little ways to enlarge your child's world.
Love of books is the best of all.
- Jacqueline Kennedy |
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we
lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite
book.
Marcel Proust |
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"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."
Strickland Gillilan |
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So her young mind continued to grow, nurtured by
the voices of all those authors who had sent
their books out into the world like ships on the
sea.
- Roald Dahl |
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"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."
Marilyn Jager Adams |
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Once
you learn to read, you will be forever free.
- Frederick Douglass |