Kate DiCamillo Reading Quotations

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

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

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.