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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

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.

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

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

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

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.