Ability Quote by Rafe Esquith

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

— Ann Brashares

“I think the need for reading boils down to one simple issue: children are selfish. Reading about other people creates a sense of balance…

— Alan Bennett

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and…

— Harold Bloom

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

— Celeste Ng

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to…

— Kate DiCamillo

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to…

— Ziggy Marley

A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so much closer,…

— Marley Dias

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives…

— Julie Andrews

With three of my own children, I have witnessed first-hand the vital role reading has played as part of their childhood and I am…

— Harry Enfield

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents…

— Michael Morpurgo