What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it,… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans,… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“This is not a book about teaching a child how to read; it's about teaching a child to want to read. There's an education… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
