Kate DiCamillo Quotes

As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

My kids really still share the one thing that I think is life-changing, and that's eye contact with me. As they've gotten older, I have made it a priority to continue that.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.