I have quotes to share today, some from rather famous writers and celebrities, about reading to children. Enjoy!
"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
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J. K. Rowling
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald
"Teaching reading IS rocket science."
— Louisa Moats
"Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different."
— Steven Pinker
"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today."
— Gabriela Mistral
"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
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."
— Jacqueline Kennedy
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
— Lady Montagu, providing advice on raising her granddaughter, 1752
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
— Austin Phelps
"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
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
If that's not encouragement to read to your children, I don't know what is.
Side note: I'm also blogging today over at Regency Reflections, where I'm sharing a review of a simply wonderful novel I read over the weekend, Heart's Safe Passage by Laurie Alice Eakes. Stop by if you have a chance.
The Austin Phelps and the Strickland Gillilan are the best. Before our evening service at church Sunday night, we were discussing the benefits of shopping resale shops, and what we'd do with the extra money.
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I've been reading Laura Ingalls Wilder to my 5 year old, she's loving it, and it thrills me. My sister read them to me when we were kids, and they're still some of my favorites.
Those are great choices, Andrea. I'm a fan of the Emilie Buchwald and Lady Montagu ones, myself.
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