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You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

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