Childhood Quote by Magda Gerber

Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most…

— David Elkind

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early…

— Laura Bush

“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

The earlier a child learns, the more likely he or she is to do well later in life.

— Kay Ivey

“quantitative evidence that teaching children to read from age five is not likely to make that child any more successful at reading than a…

— Terry Marselle

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books,…

— Betsy Hearne

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young…

— Alison Gopnik

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children…

— Jane Bown

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can…

— Sadie Jones

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave…

— Laura van den Berg

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have…

— Alan Bradley