Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about a reference to addiction in one of Loren Long’s illustrations of their picture book Love and the ways in which that reference has empowered young people to talk share their own stories.
Walton Hamilton says that it only takes one really successful, thrilling, joyful, wonderful, losing of one’s self in the magic reading experience to captivate that child’s imagination.
Access to books at home, setting aside reading time, being a reading role model for children, and book choice are proven ways to encourage lifelong reading.
