“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig Copy Share Image
Children won't just love to read. Children learn what they live, parents are responsible for instilling that in them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Read to your children. Open their minds and fill them with imagination and wonder. Create Awesome by being awesome.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children. — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from… — Anne Hegerty Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
As parents, the most important thing we can do is read to our children early and often. Reading is the path to… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed. — Jesse White Copy Share Image
We wanted to write a book that we would have read as kids, and would love to read to our children. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right… — Frank Serafini Copy Share Image
I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
