“Before they read words, children are reading pictures.”

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”

“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”

“The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.”

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

“Read the story like you believe it, read with passion to your children. Encourage their imagination”