This year we launched our new literacy initiative, Open a World of Possible, which celebrates the pleasure and power of reading. Along with free resources for parents and teachers, tips, videos, and research, the initiative highlights the voices of authors, experts, and educators, many of whom have a lot to say about how books have influenced their lives. We're in awe over how they're able to articulate their love of reading in such unique, poetic ways.
That said, we're featuring some of our favorite quotes from 2014 here. We look forward to sharing many more with you in 2015! You can find them on soical media at #sharepossible.
“Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.” - Jim Trelease
“Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.” - Pam Allyn
“My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.” - Barry Lane
“I wouldn’t be a songwriter if it wasn’t for books that I loved as a kid.” - Taylor Swift
“Independent reading is a doorway to imagination and discovery—a way to motivate children to read and learn and realize themselves.” - Scholastic CEO Dick Robinson
“A childhood spent among books prepared me for a lifetime as a reader.” - Carol Jago
“What I did understand was the pleasure that good stories offer and the power of books to introduce me to lives and experiences beyond my own.” - Rudine Sims Bishop
"Even though I had reading challenges as a kid, I really did love to read, as long as I could choose my own books.” - Dav Pilkey
“I realize, of course, that I wasn’t born knowing how to read. I just can’t imagine a time when I didn’t know how.” - Katherine Paterson
