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Kate DiCamillo Quotes about Reading

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

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

Kate DiCamillo
Children, Reading, Literacy

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.

Kate DiCamillo
Reading, People, Profound

Reading is my passion.

Kate DiCamillo
Reading, Passion, My Passion
Source: www.hbook.com

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

Kate DiCamillo
Art, Reading, Mean

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

Kate DiCamillo
Reading, Magic, Stories
Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.47, Candlewick Press

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

Kate DiCamillo
Book, Reading, Kids
TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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.

Kate DiCamillo
Children, Reading, Thinking

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.

Kate DiCamillo
Reading, Knights, Together
Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.

Kate DiCamillo
Book, Reading, Kids
Source: www.hbook.com

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

Kate DiCamillo
Reading, Thinking, Illumination
Source: www.hbook.com

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.

Kate DiCamillo
Children, Reading, World
Source: www.hbook.com

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