“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
— Arnold Lobel
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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
— Lemony Snicket
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“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
―Kate DiCamillo
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
—Joseph Addison
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
―Charlotte’s Web by E.B.White
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“And we knew that in all languages, there are words as warm as breath and others as cold as metal.”
―The Day Saida Arrived by
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“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
—Chinese Proverb
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“Hope and peace and love and trust
All the world is all of us.”
—All The World by Liz Garton Scanlon
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”…if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
—The Twits by Roald Dahl
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“But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”
—Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
—Charles William Eliot
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“A story is about the reader, not the writer.”
—Richard Peck