If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

If I couldn't sleep, I could read.

I never met a word I didn't love

Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.