Book Quote by Josh Radnor

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding…

— Joan Aiken

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age,…

— Julia Roberts

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

“A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot more invaluable…

— Jyoti Arora

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

— Joan Aiken

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

— Edsger Dijkstra

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

— Heidi Julavits

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

— Vivek Shraya

Sadly, there are many children who have not yet been given the chance to 'discover the magic of reading, or set foot in the…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

— Barack Obama