Books, to the reading child, are so much more than…

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and…

— Anne Fadiman

“It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child at a…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are…

— Victor Null

All books are either dreams or swords.

— Amy Lowell

A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something…

— Judy Blume

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

— Amy Lowell

“quantitative evidence that teaching children to read from age five is not likely to make that child any more successful at reading than a…

— Terry Marselle

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

— Barbara Bush

I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Anonymous

“Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness. ”

— Victor Nell

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without…

— Richard Whately