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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

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 kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

Reading is important.

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

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

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.