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10 of the Best

Quotations about Books and Reading for Kids

from the Pivotal Network 2013

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
 -Robertson Davies

 

 

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."

— Emilie Buchwald

 

 

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
 ~ Maya Angelou 

 

 

So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

-Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

 

 

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.” 

- Jacqueline Kennedy

 

 

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

–Marcel Proust

 

 

"You may have tangible wealth untold. / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be – / I had a mother who read to me."

— Strickland Gillilan

 

 

So her young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

- Roald Dahl

 

 

"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read."

— Marilyn Jager Adams

 

 

 “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

- Frederick Douglass

 

 

10 of the best  - from the Pivotal Network in 2013

 

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