Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Interpretation
Reading should be seen as an enjoyable gift to children rather than a mandatory task.
Kate DiCamillo emphasizes the importance of fostering a love for reading in children. She suggests that when reading is presented as an obligation, it can turn into a chore, discouraging children from engaging with books. Instead, by framing reading as a treasured gift, children are more likely to develop a lifelong passion for literature and learning.
In practice
A speech at a literacy event aimed at promoting reading among children.
If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child at a regular time each day, it deepens the relationship. You don't have to talk about stuff; the story will do that work for you.
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.
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.
There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?
When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
We can all agree that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, all children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and to pursue their dreams, because in the end, nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our children... These are the basic values that we all share, regardless of race, party, religion. This is what we share. These are the values that this bill embodies.
High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.
I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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