1. Why do librarians spend time teaching kids
to read for enjoyment?

2. Because we at the East Morgan County Library
love children and know how important love of
reading is in their life!

3. "Once you learn to read, you will be
forever free."
— Frederick Douglass

4. "Children are made readers on the
laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald

5. "Teaching reading IS rocket science."
— Louisa Moats

6. "Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important
activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually
require for learning to read."
— Marilyn Jager Adams

7. "To learn to read is to light
a fire; every syllable that is
spelled out is a spark."
— Victor Hugo, Les
Miserables

8. "There are many little
ways to enlarge your
child's world. Love of
books is the best of all."
— Jacqueline Kennedy

9. “There is no substitute for books in the
life of a child.”
- May Ellen Chase

10. "Oh, magic hour, when a child first
knows she can read printed words!"
— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943

11. "There is more
treasure in
books than in
all the pirate's
loot on
Treasure
Island."
— Walt Disney

12. “We read to know we are not
alone.”
- C.S. Lewis