If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books. It's really rewarding to think that they can grow up reading my books at all the different levels.
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.
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.
I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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.