Chuck Jones Quotes

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Childhood reading is so important.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.