Reading For Kids Quotes:

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Education, Book, Reading, Learning To Read, Children Reading

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.

- Jim Trelease

topic: Basketball, Children, Reading, Reading Books, Reading Aloud

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.

- Mem Fox

topic: Children, Reading, Medicine, Children About Reading, Children Reading

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

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Children, Book, Tired, Joy Of Learning, Being A Father

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

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Life, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

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.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (1994). “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, Puffin HC

topic: Book, Looks, Pages, Giraffe, Reading For Kids

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

- Robert Creeley

topic: Reading, Mean, Kids, Reading For Kids

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

- Daniel Handler

topic: Educational, Book, Reading, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Book

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

- Roald Dahl

topic: Book, Reading, Ifs, Reading For Kids

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.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Children

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

- Kate DiCamillo

topic: Children, Reading, Should, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

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.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Children, Thinking, People, Independent Bookstores, Decorating

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

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Children, Powerful, Reading, Favorite Book, Joy Of Reading

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

- Bruce Jenner

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Reading, Kids, Important, Reading For Kids

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

- Matthew Kelly

topic: Prayer, Reading, Exercise, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Reading For Kids, Tactile

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

- William James

topic: Children, Reading, Sky, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

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

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

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

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Smile, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading

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

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Reading, Stories, Lasts, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

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.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Wall, Book, Humor, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Education, Children, Book, Wacky, Inspiring Book

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

- Joseph Brodsky

source: "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

topic: Book, Reading, Burning, Martian Chronicles, Learning To Read

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

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

topic: Children, Reading, Skills, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading

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

source: Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

topic: Mother, Parenting, Jewels, Mother Son, Special Mother

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

- Austin Phelps

source: Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

topic: Book, Reading, Coats, Speed Reading, Old Books

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

- George Carlin

topic: Faith, Children, Learning, Inspirational Education, Children's Books

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.

- Greg Pak

topic: Book, Reading, Character, Reading For Kids, Biggest Fan

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Trying To Fit In, Just Being You

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Reading, Carpe Diem, Literacy, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Education, Inspirational Children, Inspirational Reading

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

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspirational, Education, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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.

- Judy Blume

source: FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Apr 16, 2013

topic: Freedom, Children, Philosophy, Children About Reading, Children Reading

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Book, Reading, Healing, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

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.

- James Patterson

source: "How to get your kid to be a fanatic reader" by James Patterson, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2011.

topic: Book, Reading, Kids, Reading For Kids, Reading More

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

- Marcel Proust

topic: Book, Reading, Childhood, Favorite Book, Inspirational Children

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.

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Life, Graduation, Confidence, Going To College, Seeing Yourself

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Sports, Book, Reading, Instant Replay, Libraries Books And Reading

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Children, Book, Inspirational Reading, Book Reading

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

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

- Toni Morrison

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude, Joy Of Reading, Creative Writing

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.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Inspirational, Education, Book, Book Reading, Ink And Paper

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

- Harper Lee

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Reading, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

topic: Book, Reading, Library, Joy Of Reading, Diversion

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

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Book, Reading, Forever, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

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.

- Jon Scieszka

source: "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Book, Reading, Kids, Electronic Media, Computer Games