What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

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

You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you could read, let you taste the magic of stories, took you to the library, and allowed you to stay up later at night to read in bed.

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.