Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

Childhood reading is so important.

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.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

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!

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.