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I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

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.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

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.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

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.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.