I’m just gonna quote.
Children who are read to regularly from early ages develop lifelong skills that can’t be acquired from a VCR or the Disney Channel. They become better listeners and find it easier to pay attention in school. Their vocabularies grow rapidly, and grammar seems less mysterious to them. They don’t immediately lose interest in any idea that is harder to grasp than a television commercial. They develop the patience to follow a complex problem to its solution. They become better writers all by themselves, through their ample powers of imitation.
…Good readers do better in school, score higher on standardized tests…attend better colleges, hold more interesting jobs, write more persuasive legal briefs, make better conversation, and become less and less likely to gripe about being bored…
Most of all, children who grow up immersed in books develop the ability to answer their own questions….Gradually, they acquire a skill shared by the greatest scholars in the world: the ability to educate themselves…
Words to raise children by.
Book Review Monday Chatter David Owen The First National Bank of Dad
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I totally agree with you, Dana. I am very concerned with those wishing to ban books also. Banning books, rewriting history seems to be the name of the game—it must be stopped.
You know how much I agree with you!
This is so true and the reason I support literacy projects on donorschoose.com. Books open doors to adventures, insight to other cultures and safe, positive time spent. I grew up in a small town where the library was my safe haven and open door to adventures.
There were librarians at my The Harvey Girl event on Saturday and I told them that I wouldn’t be who I am with the support of my home town librarian. It was the absolute truth; I didn’t say just because they were standing in front of me being librarians. Susan Bloch English will always be the first and more important mentor and personal hero in my life.