“since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.” WayShouldChildrenBookIdeasCoursesChildhoodSixHundredInsightNew IdeasVocabulary Author:Joan Aiken
“Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.” MindChildrenBookLightKidsPoetryReadingLiteratureFantasyLearningDiscoveryLibraryLabelsNonsenseCopiesReading BooksVersesComic BookVocabularyExpandingPackagesCerealChildren LearningNonsensicalEnlargementIntellectual Growth Author:Joan Aiken