Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one.