Reading For Kids Quotes

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

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

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

Love of books is the best of all.

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

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

I don’t want little kids reading my comics.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.