If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.