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- Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
- Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
- Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
- Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors…
- Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might…
- When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in…
- When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they…
- With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman…
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- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
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