Mal Peet Quotes

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm a slow reader.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.