Best Children Reading Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”

“I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.”

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Author:Jan Brett

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

Source: Les Misérables

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

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

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

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

Source: Letters

“Anything that gets children reading is fine.”

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Author:Michael Morpurgo

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

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Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume

“If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.”

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Author:James Patterson

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

Source: On Reading

“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.”

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of 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.”

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Author:Judy Blume

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

Source: Essays

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

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“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.”

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Author:Mem Fox

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

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

Source: Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star

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

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Author:George Carlin

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

“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.”

“There is no substitute for books in the life of 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.”

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Author:William James

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

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

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.”

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Author:T. Berry Brazelton

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...”

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.”

“If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“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.”

“You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

“Love of books is the best of all.”

“I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.”

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

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