Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.