If I ever have children of my own, they will read…

I didn't start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for 'Matilda' The Musical in London! It was actually the first time I…

— Amybeth McNulty

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.'…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

— Roald Dahl

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

— Maurice Sendak

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read…

— Adora Svitak

“We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already…

— Anonymous

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.”

— Peggy Rathmann

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't…

— China Mieville

A good book written for children can be read by adults

— Norton Juster

When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow.

— Kerry Kennedy

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an…

— Quentin Blake

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton