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By Susan Govorko | May 13, 2020 |

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It’s never too early to read to a child. Infants and toddlers enjoy this special time to snuggle up with a parent or grandparent. One day they will ask, “What does that say?” Then you know they are ready to begin learning to identify the letters as sound symbols. Make up some cards with the Vimala Alphabet™ letters and play a seek and find game, searching pages for a matching letter. Use just one letter at a time.

My most cherished moments are snuggling with my grand-children, rapt in the allure of a good book! -Susan Govorko

For love of books …

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

– Emilie Buchwald

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

– Chinese proverb

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

– Marcus T. Cicero

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – Walt Disney

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away,

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry.

-Emily Dickinson

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. – Katherine Mansfield

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books — they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

– Ester Meynell

The Reading Mother

I had a mother who read to me
Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea,
Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth,
‘Blackbirds’ stowed in the hold beneath.

I had a Mother who read me lays
Of ancient and gallant and golden days;
Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe,
Which every boy has a right to know.

I had a Mother who read me tales
Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales,
True to his trust till his tragic death,
Faithfulness blent with his final breath.

I had a Mother who read me the things
That wholesome life to the boy heart brings-
Stories that stir with an upward touch,
Oh, that each mother of boys were such!

You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be-
I had a Mother who read to me.

by Strickland Gillilan

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

– Mary Ellen Chase (1952)