Children's Reading Quotes: top 77 famous quotes about Children's Reading

Children's Reading Quotes & Sayings

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT. — Kate DiCamillo

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... — Bruno Bettelheim

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

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy. — Los Angeles Times

Anything that gets children reading is fine. — Michael Morpurgo

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. — Roald Dahl

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that. — Charles Clarke

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read! — Mitch Hedberg

The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives. — J.K. Rowling

Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with "It's Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus — Soraya Diase Coffelt

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits. — Oliver DeMille

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. — C.S. Lewis

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. — Eleanor Catton

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. — C.S. Lewis

So you're a reader," My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection. — Denis Markell

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. — Neil Postman

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. — Frank Serafini

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer. — Sarah Jio

Children of the future age
Reading this indignant page
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime — William Blake

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. — Holbrook Jackson

Reading is Intriguing...it can take you on a great Adventure! — M. Ann Machen Pritchard

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works. — John Rowland

The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. — Jim Trelease

Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read. — Ken Spillman

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. — Esther Meynell

Plans make dreams reality. — Susan Pace-Koch

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb. — Joyce Herzog

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate. — Mem Fox

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list. — Laura Miller

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. — Robert Southey

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else. — Marva Collins

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education. — Pat Frank

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. — George W. Bush

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. — Michael Morpurgo

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie. — Salman Rushdie

Reading helps children achieve their divine destinies — Soraya Diase Coffelt

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day. — Pope Pius X

A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis

Reading to small children is a specialty. — Clifton Fadiman

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. — Gail Caldwell

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. — James Patterson

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library. — AnnaMarie Ralph

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading. — Malorie Blackman

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. — Henri Nouwen

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. — Pamela Glass Kelly

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile. — Laura Bush

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. — Emilie Buchwald

Rising numbers of children enjoy reading and are increasingly likely to read outside the classroom, a study has found. — Anonymous

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. — Beverly Cleary

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools. — Malorie Blackman

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject. — Barbara Bush

Before they read words, children are reading pictures. — David Wiesner

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. — Charlotte M. Mason

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children. — Aerin Lauder

~Reading a book is like looking through a window! — Zetta Hupf

Children read more when they see other people reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. — Zoe Kazan

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. — Leo Buscaglia

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children. — Elizabeth Bowen

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes. — Paul Kropp

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The more you read, the more you will love to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children. — Norman Geisler

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children. — Corin Tucker

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. — Toby Jones

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The children became their reciprocal angels: readers. — Daniel Pennac

As night falls silently all around,
She carefully turns the last page. — Rachel Lewis