Attention Quote by Samuel Johnson

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

— Robert Falcon Scott

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've…

— John le Carre

Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to…

— Lilian Katz

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure…

— Rick Riordan

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that…

— Jon Scieszka

I think if you can show a kid that reading can actually be fun, it can make you laugh, inspire imagination - that can…

— Dav Pilkey

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of…

— Ray Kroc

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I…

— John McGahern

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The…

— Nick Hornby

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

— Barbara Stanwyck

“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier and deeper…

— Raven Black